Can’t Look Away: Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle seeks to reveal connections between the Black Lives Matter movements and the Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 60s through conversations centered on select photographs depicting the Civil Rights Era.
In episode 4 part 2, we continue our discussion of two works by Charles Moore: “Demonstrators attacked with water cannons, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, May 6,” 1963, and “Birmingham, Alabama (Riot with police dogs),” 1963. What can a photograph tell us about an event that another form of representation can’t? How does accompanying text work to add nuance to a photograph’s message? How does displaying a photograph in an art museum change how it is perceived?
Discussants in this episode are Austin Porter, Assistant Professor of Art History and American Studies, and Jodi Kovach, Curator of Academic Programs at the Gund Gallery.
The Gund Gallery would like to extend a special thanks to our discussants, all our campus collaborators at Kenyon College, and our partners at Kokosing River Productions.
Funding for this video series was generously provided by David Horvitz ‘72 and Francie Bishop Good.
