TY - JOUR
AU - Dhavan, Purnima
AB - Exhibition Reviews 819 important for visitors to observe stereocards as they were experienced by middle-class Americans in the nineteenth century—that is, as three-dimensional images seen through binocular viewers rather than as framed pictures on gallery walls. Other limitations of the display techniques in the show can be similarly instructive to curators. While sug- gestive of a narrative of progress, the broadly chronological ordering of uniformly spaced pictures did not foster dialogues among the photographs; we did not see, for instance, the conversation—proposed in Wallis’s catalogue essay—between the staged racist jokes from the 1870s and the “serious” theatrical portraits from the early twentieth century. Displaying such conversations would allow Americans to explore a yet unanswered ques- tion that lies at the heart of African American vernacular photography: What made the camera a powerful tool in both the oppression of African Americans and their struggle for equality? The icp’s exhibition showed us that this question has finally become a mat- ter of much public and institutional interest. Tanya Sheehan Columbia University New York, New York “Sikh Community: Over 100 Years in the Pacic fi Northwest.” e Th Wing Luke Asian Museum, 407 7th Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98104. Temporary exhibition, Oct. 
TI - Sikh Community: Over 100 Years in the Pacific Northwest
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/4486421
DA - 2006-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/sikh-community-over-100-years-in-the-pacific-northwest-ipamvaVHHc
SP - 819
EP - 821
VL - 93
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -