African Americans, Civil Rights, Jesse Owens

Several years ago, Rochester-based artist Amanda Chestnut was researching in Visual Studies Workshop's Soibelman Syndicate News Agency Archives and observed how photographs of Black subjects were treated differently than images of non-Black people and subjects. Not only did the photographers and the news agency treat the subjects differently, but our organization's archivists clearly had as well. As a 2020 resident in VSW's Project Space, Chestnut worked with us to publish this remarkable archive/book that re-claims the other-ness of Black photographic subjects as well as the innumerable attempts to personally other the Black artist and her family for much of her life.

2021, VSW Press, 4 x 6 x 4.5 inches, includes 41 booklets and 15 photographs; edition of 40 books