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A Wicked Commerce : the US and the Atlantic Slave Trade through the lens of William Earle Williams.

Title
A Wicked Commerce : the US and the Atlantic Slave Trade through the lens of William Earle Williams.
Author
Williams, William Earle, 1950-
Publication
Hamilton, NY : Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, [2022]

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Additional Authors
  • Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946-
  • West, Nicholas (Of Colgate University)
  • White, Susanna (Of Colgate University)
  • Picker Gallery, host institution.
Description
52 pages : illustrations, photographs; 26 cm
Summary
"The photographs in A Wicked Commerce represent more than thirty years of the creative and scholarly work of William Earle Williams. Williams uses photogrpahy to document the history of chattel slavery in the United States, Great Britain, and the British West Indies, with a particular interest in uncovering its obscured or erased traces in the physical and cultural landscape."--Page 9.
Alternative Title
US and the Atlantic Slave Trade through the lens of William Earle Williams
Subject
  • Williams, William Earle, 1950- > Exhibitions
  • Williams, William Earle, 1950- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Williams, William Earle, 1950-
  • 1900-2099
  • Photography, Artistic > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Photography, Artistic > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Slavery > United States
  • Slavery > Great Britain
  • Slavery > West Indies, British
  • Transatlantic slave trade
  • Photographie artistique > 20e siècle > Expositions
  • Photographie artistique > 21e siècle > Expositions
  • Esclavage > États-Unis
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Slavery
  • Transatlantic slave trade
  • Great Britain
  • United States
  • West Indies > British West Indies
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • photobooks.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Photobooks
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Photobooks.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
  • Livres de photographies.
Note
  • "Published on the occasion of the exhibition A Wicked Commerce: The US and the Atlantic Slave Trade Through the Lens of William Earle Williams at Picker Art Gallery, September 22-December 20, 2022, Dana Arts Center, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY, 13346."--Page 2.
  • "A Wicked Commerce: The US and the Atlantic Slave Trade Through the Lens of William Earle Williams " : September 22-December 20, 2022, Picker Art Gallery, Dana Arts Center, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY, 13346.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foreword / Nicholas West, DPhil, Codirector, University Museums; Curator, Picker Art Galery; Research Affiliate, Department of Art and Art History -- Introduction / Susanna White, Head of Collections, University Museums -- Atlantic Slavery and Resistance in the Photography of William Earle Williams / Graham Hodges, George Dorland Langton Jr. Professor of History and Africana Studies -- Catalog of the Exhibition -- Biographies.
Call Number
TR654.W5456
ISBN
9798218029746
LCCN
2022912609
OCLC
  • 1416031120
  • on1416031120
  • SCSB-14667641
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries