Reflections in Black by Deborah Willis, from the On Photography series , 2020
12 x 10 in (h x w)

"On Photography" is a series of daguerreotypes meditating on books and keepsakes on the subject of "Photography." I borrow the title from Susan Sontag's collection of essays with the same name, published in 1977–the year I was born. Twenty-three years later, at the turn of the century (2000), author and educator Dr. Deborah Willis published, "Reflections in Black: a history of Black photographers, 1840 to the present." We are now in the year 2020, amid a pandemic, an election year, and social movements advocate against police violence towards Black people. Throughout history, Photography has played a role in racial hierarchy, but Photography can also dismantle such 19th and 20th-century ideas of White Hegemony. "Reflection in Black," asks us to see ourselves as intersections of each other's history, as part of black life.

Other works by Binh Danh

Barracked , 2005
9.5 x 11.5 x 0.1 in (h x w x d)
Chlorophyll print and resin; Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, CSU, museum purchase made possible by the FUNd, 2008.1
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View of Bernal Heights and 101/280 interchange, San Francisco, CA , 2020
8 x 10 in (h x w)
Daguerréotype
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Camouflage, from "Life, Times, and Matters of the Swamp series" , 2006
22.3 x 15.8 in (h x w)
Chlorophyll print and resin
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The Crosses of Lafayette, CA , 2016
8 x 10 in (h x w)
Daguerréotype
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Phụng Anh Duong's garden, Morgan City, LA, from the "Xanh, LÀ" series , 2018
40 x 50 in (h x w)
Digital print
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