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Black Chronicles ll
Autograph ABP presents Black Chronicles ll, a new exhibition exploring black presences in 19th and early 20th century Britain, though the prism of studio portraiture.
Drawing on the metaphor of the chronicle, the exhibition presents over 200 photographs, the majority of which have never been exhibited or published before. As a curated body of work, these images present new knowledge and offer different ways of seeing the black subject in Victorian Britain, and contribute to an ongoing process of redressing persistent 'absense' within the historical record.
For the first time, a comprehensive body of photographs depicting black people in Britain prior to the beginning of the second world war are brought together in this exhibition - identifited through original research carried out in the holdings of national public archives and examining privately owned collections.