Double Exposure: Picturing Children

Double Exposure is a major new series based on the remarkable photography collection held by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Washington, D.C. From daguerreotype portraits taken before the Civil War, to twenty-first century digital prints, Double Exposure is a striking visual record of key historical events, cultural touchstones, and private and communal moments, that helps to illuminate African American life. The fourth volume in the series, ‘Picturing Children’, features a diverse selection of photographs: spontaneous records of intimate family moments, playtime, and communal activities as well as posed portraits. Photographers include Henry Clay Anderson, Wayne F. Miller, Joe Schwartz, Jamal Shabazz, Milton Williams and Ernest C. Withers. The volume includes short reflections on individual photographs which explore how the images speak not only to past experiences of African American youth, but also to our evolving concepts of childhood, youth engagement in American society and the future. AUTHOR: Marian Wright Edelman is a lawyer, children’s rights activist, and founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund
Ivory Toldson is a professor, author, and the deputy director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). He is also the founding director of the Center for Research, Evaluation, Assessment, and Training in Education (CREATE, LLC) 60 b/w