Black Chronicles

Name: Black Chronicles
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9780500026618
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Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain

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A collection of extraordinary 19th-century portraits that radically shifts our understanding of the presence and identities of the Black subject in Victorian Britain. These striking studio portraits, curated and brought together following ten years of research championed by Autograph, constitute the most comprehensive collection of 19th-century... Read More

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Black Chronicles

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A collection of extraordinary nineteenth-century portraits that radically shifts our understanding of the presence and identities of the Black subject in Victorian Britain.

A collection of extraordinary 19th-century portraits that radically shifts our understanding of the presence and identities of the Black subject in Victorian Britain.

Description

A collection of extraordinary 19th-century portraits that radically shifts our understanding of the presence and identities of the Black subject in Victorian Britain.

These striking studio portraits, curated and brought together following ten years of research championed by Autograph, constitute the most comprehensive collection of 19th-century photography depicting the Black subject in the Victorian era, including some of the earliest known images of Black people photographed in Britain.

The historically marginalized lives of both ordinary and prominent Black figures of African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian, and mixed heritage are seen through a prism of curatorial advocacy and experimental scholarly assemblage. Black Chronicles features high quality reproductions of plate negatives, cartes de visite, and cabinet cards, many of which were buried deep in various private and public archives including the Hulton Archive's remarkable London Stereoscopic Company collection, unseen for decades.

These photographs are linked with imperial and colonial narratives through newly commissioned essays and rare lecture transcripts, in-conversation and text interventions by Caroline Bressey, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, M. Neelika Jayawardane, Lola Jaye, Renée Mussai, and Val Wilmer, and an afterword by Mark Sealy.

Built upon groundbreaking, in-depth new research, Black Chronicles opens up photographic archives to expand and enrich photography's complex cultural histories and subjectivities, offering an essential insight into the visual politics of race, representation, and difference in the Victorian era by addressing this crucial missing chapter.

Introduction and texts by Renée Musai, Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Text by Paul Gilroy, Text by Stuart Hall, Text by Caroline Bressey, Text by Lola Jaye, Text by M. Neelika Jayawardane, Afterword by Mark Sealy, Text by Val Wilmer

Published by Thames & Hudson in partnership with Autograph.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500026618

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: 394 total no. of images supplied, but image count at 330 for the record are portraits (others are ba; 330 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Foreword by Henry Louis Gates
Edited by Renée Mussai
Text by Neelika Jayawardane
Interviewee Caroline Bressey
Text by Val Wilmer
Text by Lola Jaye
Text by Stuart Hall
Text by Paul Gilroy
Text by Caroline Bressey
Afterword by Mark Sealy

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 245.0mm

Height: 295.0mm

Weight: 2080g

Pages: 304

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Renée Mussai is an independent curator, writer and scholar of visual culture. Formerly Senior Curator and Head of Collection at Autograph, she is currently Senior Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD), University of Johannesburg, Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London, and Chair of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation. Her publications include 'Eyes That Commit - A Visual Gathering' (2025), and several award-winning artist monographs.