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Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton Album - by Sarah Meister (Hardcover)

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  • A portrait of one of the earliest African American and Native American colleges, from an album found in a bookstore by Lincoln KirsteinFrances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), credited as the first female photojournalist in the United States, was commissioned in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, then a 30-year-old institution dedicated to the education of young African American and Native American men and women.
  • Author(s): Sarah Meister
  • 192 Pages
  • Photography, History

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A portrait of one of the earliest African American and Native American colleges, from an album found in a bookstore by Lincoln Kirstein

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), credited as the first female photojournalist in the United States, was commissioned in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, then a 30-year-old institution dedicated to the education of young African American and Native American men and women. What became known as the Hampton Album--comprised of 159 luxurious platinum plates that offer insight into the daily life of students, originally exhibited in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris--is Johnston's signature work, and a touchstone for contemporary artists and historians.

The leatherbound album was discovered serendipitously by Lincoln Kirstein in a Washington, DC, bookstore during World War II, and donated to MoMA in 1965. This volume makes the album available to the public in its entirety for the first time, and features a contextualizing essay by curator Sarah Hermanson Meister and a response to the album from artist LaToya Ruby Frazier.



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Johnston's photographs show students attending lectures or practicing manual skills, and they are so deliberately posed and choreographically distributed that they appear suspended in space; the scenes resemble theater photos of the fin de siècle, or early film stills.--Luc Sante "New York Times: Book Review"
Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 12.1 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.95 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 192
Genre: Photography
Sub-Genre: History
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Format: Hardcover
Author: Sarah Meister
Language: English
Street Date: May 21, 2019
TCIN: 91224283
UPC: 9781633450813
Item Number (DPCI): 247-30-2890
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship weight: 2.95 pounds
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