This
summer, the International Center for Photography in New
York is presenting the exhibition For
All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights,
curated by Maurice Berger, a professor at University
of Maryland, Baltimore County.  The show presents film and television clips, photography,
newspapers, and other objects in order to demonstrate the role that they played
in enabling civil rights changes and in establishing the character of the
movement. 

For those
of you unable to get to the exhibition, reviewed
by Laila Pedro in Idiom magazine as “one
of the most careful and engaging curatorial efforts I’ve seen in a long time,”
there are a host of other ways to experience the exhibit.  There is an online version
of the exhibition, which offers some of the images and written ideas behind the
organization of the show, and an online film
festival which matches seventeen films with short essays.  All of the films are easily available on DVD,
and the corresponding essays establish their connections to and influences on
the civil rights movement.

The
exhibition will also be travelling to the National Museum of American History
in Washington D.C. and the Center
for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at University of Maryland Baltimore County.  Whether or not you make it to the
show, you can bring the experience home with the exhibition catalogue, which is
available from the Yale Press website. 

To
learn more about the exhibition, check out this video from PBS’s Sunday Arts.  They featured the exhibition in their August
1 show, and posted the piece online.

http://player.theplatform.com/ps/player/pds/kj-5OcNN0M&pid=sxfm1BSZ2Uopzc50ZrKSIPiNNz24Eh8E