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TONIGHT: Frederick Douglass in Photographs

6-7:00 pm at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College via Zoom (free)

Image: Aaron Turner, Seen, of light and legacy, from the Black Alchemy Vol.2 series, 2022

"Join us for a virtual talk conversation between Refracting Histories artist Aaron Turner and photography scholar Shawn Michelle Smith. Turner and Smith will discuss Frederick Douglass as the most photographed person of the 19th century, as well as his prescient views on the power of photography for shattering false narratives. Smith is professor of visual and critical studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois."

A Hierarchy of Thinking

Why do we do the kinds of activities we do in this class? Consider the diagram below and think about which level of thinking is most common in and outside of our course: