“African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s” Exhibition

“African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s” Exhibition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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This exhibition will present more than one hundred and fifty studio portraits of African Americans from the mid-twentieth century, part of an important recent acquisition by The Met. Produced by mostly unidentified makers, the photographs are a poignant, collective self portrait of the African American experience during the 1940s and 1950s—a time of war, middle-class growth, and seismic cultural change.

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