“Power is constitutive of the story.”
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
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Traditional darkroom dodging tools shade a portion of a print from the light of the film enlarger. Kelly Kristin Jones’s “Dodging Tools” series plays on this concept of physical intervention in developing photographs to obscure symbols to white supremacy in real-life landscapes.
In Dodging Tool #34, a white rectangle hides a sculpture carved into Stone Mountain in Georgia (the largest bas-relief in the world), depicting three Confederate leaders of the Civil War: President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
Traditional darkroom dodging tools shade a portion of a print from the light of the film enlarger. Kelly Kristin Jones’s “Dodging Tools” series plays on this concept of physical intervention in developing photographs to obscure symbols to white supremacy in real-life landscapes.
In Dodging Tool #34, a white rectangle hides a sculpture carved into Stone Mountain in Georgia (the largest bas-relief in the world), depicting three Confederate leaders of the Civil War: President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
The Confederate Memorial at Stone Mountain was sculpted by Gutzon Borglum, an active member of the Ku Klux Klan who would later complete the monument at Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
SEC. 01
DECONSTRUCTING RACE
DECONSTRUCTING RACE
SEC. 02
DISRUPTING MASTER NARRATIVES
DISRUPTING MASTER NARRATIVES
SEC. 03
DECOLONIZING THE ARCHIVES
DECOLONIZING THE ARCHIVES
SEC. 04
ENDING SILENCES
ENDING SILENCES
SEC. 05
DENYING HISTORICAL SURVEILLANCE
DENYING HISTORICAL SURVEILLANCE
SEC. 06
WRITING COUNTERHISTORIES
WRITING COUNTERHISTORIES