Democracy, Race, and the Power of Images

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Organized in conjunction with the publication of two highly anticipated volumes: Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images, the first title in Aperture’s new Vision & Justice Series, and The Unseen Truth by Sarah Lewis. Race Stories anthologizes a collection of short essays that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture by award-winning historian, curator, and critic Maurice Berger (1956–2020). In The Unseen Truth, Lewis offers a probing historical analysis of the fictions that have long secured our regime of racial hierarchy in the United States. Framed by Berger and Lewis’s ever urgent contributions to thinking about race and representation in the US, this Forum will consider the role of cultural criticism in the work of examining social justice, equity, and democracy. For this convening we are delighted to be joined by a group of distinguished speakers: Dawoud Bey, artist Vinson Cunningham, Staff writer and cultural critic, The New Yorker Aruna D’Souza, writer and curator Ava DuVernay, filmmaker and screenwriter Awol Erizku, artist Marvin Heiferman, writer and curator Sherrilyn Ifill, The Vernon L. Jordan, Jr. Chair in Civil Rights, Howard University Sarah Lewis, Founder of Vision & Justice and John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University Siddhartha Mitter, writer and critic Leigh Raiford, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley RaMell Ross, artist and filmmaker Deborah Willis, University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: https://moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.  #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart