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Untitled (Woman on a Bench), from the project The Negro in Virginia

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In 1938, twenty-year-old Robert McNeill was hired to take photographs for The Negro in Virginia, one of more than a dozen black-oriented history projects launched by the New Deal Federal Writer’s Project in the late 1930s. With a three-and-a-half week deadline and a small amount of film, McNeill had to choose his shots carefully. It was a challenging assignment through which he sought to dispel myths about slavery and focus attention on the contemporary lives of black Virginians.African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, 2012
Format:
Gelatin Silver Print
Rights:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. African American
  2. African Americans
  3. Architecture
  4. Detail
  5. Elderly
  6. Ethnic
  7. Ethnicity
  8. Figure Female
  9. Mc Neill, Robert
  10. Older People
  11. Porch

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