VISUALIZING RACE

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on Thursday, January 29th, 2004

Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, an exhibition at the International Center of Photography co-curated by Brian Wallis and Coco Fusco, explores the question “How do photographs make us see race?”

The exhibition, which includes over 350 works in a variety of formats spanning nearly 200 years of photographic history, is organized in five thematic sections — such as Humanized/Fetishized, which “contrasts photographs that emphasize a subject’s individuality with those that objectify or dehumanize their subjects,” and Assimilate/Impersonate, which “compares images of people attempting to look or act white with those of people assuming the characteristics of non-whites.”

In conjunction with the exhibition, which runs through February 29, a free interdisciplinary symposium, Visualizing Race in American Photography, will take place Saturday, February 7 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Columbia Law School Jerome Greene Hall, Room 101. For further info or to register, call the ICP Education dept. at (212) 857-0001.

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