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The Museum of Art – DeLand presents a powerful immersive art exhibition showcasing the work of early photographer Hugh Mangum.Hugh Mangum was an itinerant self-taught photographer from Durham, North Carolina, from the early 1890s until his death in 1922 during the influenza pandemic. He traveled a rail circuit through North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia making photographs on glass plate negatives. Magnum used a variety of equipment during his career ranging from the “Penny Picture” camera which produced images the size of a penny to a Cirkut panorama camera capable of producing images 8″X 40″ without enlargement.
Mangum photographs are distinctive for the level of comfort exhibited by his subjects in front of the camera. Though the south of his era was marked by disenfranchisement, segregation and inequality, Mangum’s multiple-image, glass plate negatives reveal the open-door policy of his studio and an artistic freshness unusual for the time period.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897–1922
On view April 9 – June 12, 2022
Museum of Art – DeLand
100 N. Woodland Blvd. DeLand, Florida 32720
Admission: Members Free | Non-Members $5
More details at: moartdeland.org/event/where-we-find-ourselves
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Museum of Art Deland Satellite Galleries, 100 N Woodland Blvd,DeLand,FL,United States
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