[Leica] the slave daguerrotypes of agassiz and JT Zealy

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

One fact missing from this - Agassiz WAS a Harvard professor; he's been dead 
for more than a century. ;-)
Typed with big fingers on tiny keys

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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:49:28 
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Subject: [Leica] the slave daguerrotypes of agassiz and JT Zealy

an interesting flap in the boston globe today about the photos commissioned
by the racist professor Agassiz at Harvard from JT Zealy in Columbia SC.

a swiss anti-racism group tried obtaining permission to show some of the
photos in their exhibition in grindelwald but received an email from
Harvard stating " its curators found ?some of the language in your
exhibition materials, although interesting, aggressive towards Agassiz, who
was a very influential figure at Harvard.?

so the swiss anti-racism folks are going ahead with silhouettes they have
created of the slave daguerrotypes "but also the relevant e-mail exchanges
with the employees of both Harvard museums ? which, even if they were sent
partly in error, give the exhibit an extra punch.

?Sometimes,? F?ssler said, ?the ?other side? just makes the best mistakes.?
i love it!
:-)

f?ssler is also involved in a petition to change the name of the mountain
named after the racist Harvard professor to the name of the slave in the
most famous of the photos, a man named Renty.

renty -
http://rayamst312.umwblogs.org/2009/03/19/louis-agassizs-slave-daguerreotype/


http://antislavery.eserver.org/news/news-agassizhorn-to-rentyhorn.html

cheers!
bharani

http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/06/26/harvard-fight-over-racist-images/oct8cc0KAGAm3H0qE9WY4H/story.html#

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