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

Manzanar National Historical Site, Independence, CA , 2016
8 x 10 in (h x w)
Daguerréotype
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LIFE version Swamp Thing cover, “Life, Times, and Matters of the Swamp" series , 2007
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Found comic books
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La silhouette of the moon , 2017
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Daguerréotype
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The Crosses of Lafayette, CA , 2014
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Daguerréotype
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Guard Tower, Manzanar National Historical Site, Independence, CA , 2016
10 x 8 in (h x w)
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