Revolutionary Black portrait exhibition opens at University of Virginia
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — During the Jim Crow era, when minstrel shows and racist caricatures accounted for nearly all visual representations of Black...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — During the Jim Crow era, when minstrel shows and racist caricatures accounted for nearly all visual representations of Black people, hundreds of Black Virginians from Charlottesville, Albemarle County and Nelson County commissioned distinguished self-portraits that shattered stereotypes.The Holsinger Collection exhibit, titled Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style and Racial Uplift featuring photographs taken by well-known Charlottesville photographer Rufus Holsinger, will be on display at the University of Virginia Albert and Shirley Small Collections Library through September 2023.