A Willing Suspension of Disbelief + Photography and Fetish
A three-channel video installation and a split-screen video installation in response to an 1850 daguerrotype of a young American-born enslaved woman named Delia, who was photographed stripped bare as visual evidence in support of an ethnographic study by the Swiss-born naturalist professor Louis Agassiz, who held that racial characteristics are a result of differing human origins.
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A Willing Suspension of Disbelief + Photography and Fetish
- Overview
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Status
Released
Release Date
Jan 1, 2014
Runtime
0h 17m
Original Title
A Willing Suspension of Disbelief + Photography and Fetish
Director
Christopher Harris
Description
A three-channel video installation and a split-screen video installation in response to an 1850 daguerrotype of a young American-born enslaved woman named Delia, who was photographed stripped bare as visual evidence in support of an ethnographic study by the Swiss-born naturalist professor Louis Agassiz, who held that racial characteristics are a result of differing human origins.
