African American Portraits

Louisiana State Museum
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits

March 13 - June 1, 2008
Old U.S. Mint
400 Esplanade Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana 70116

Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits [a project of the National Portrait Gallery] explores the history of African American achievement from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the changing roles of photographic portraits.

The exhibition includes portraits produced by both well-known photographers such as Berenice Abbott, James VanDerZee, Edward Weston, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Carl Van Vechten, and lesser-known or anonymous photographers.

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[image from museum Web site.]