Film
A Willing Suspension of Disbelief + Photography and Fetish
2014 · 17m
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Overview
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.
Crew
- Christopher HarrisDirector
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 2014
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 17m
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