History of Photography with Candice Yates | Christie's
Photographs Cataloguer Candice Yates highlights two important figures in the history of photography.
Augustus Washington and James Presley Ball were two 19th Century African American photographers working with the newly introduced medium of photography. Yates explains how their use of new techniques in portraiture allowed photography to become a means in confronting complex issues facing Black men in Antebellum America.
These two men left lasting impressions of the history of photography and continue to encourage research into the important of lesser-known aspects of history.
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