Gone But Not Forgotten: A Photographic Vision of School Segregation
by Tom Stoelker
A show at the Lipani Gallery on the Lincoln Center campus features photographs of a series of unremarkable buildings, rendered significant through technique and context.
The technique, applied in Photoshop, sets the buildings apart from their surroundings by screening the background environment down to a grey veil.
And the context is America’s racial history, as each photo of a building depicts a formerly segregated school for African Americans, located north of the Mason Dixon line.
Photographer Wendel White’s show, provocatively titled “Schools for the Colored,” runs through Oct. 26.
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