ニューヨーク近代美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク近代美術館Instagram)「We’re celebrating #Juneteenth today by looking back at some of the faces of Black citizens seen in tintype photographs dating back to the 1870s, a decade in which a dream of a more equal America seemed possible. Looking into the eyes of these emancipated men and women we can contemplate their hopes and aspirations as well as the challenges they faced. The holiday commemorates June 19, 1865, when the news reached those still enslaved in Galveston, Texas, that they were free—two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The holiday celebrates freedom and acknowledges the legacy of slavery, Black joy and pain combined. Imagine what it meant to have a photograph of yourself taken in this moment. It’s an act of self-representation. To do so was made easier by the increasing democracy of photography itself. The tintype (actually a thin sheet of iron, not tin) was a popular new process: quick and inexpensive, tintypes could be kept safely in a thin paper folder, or even a pocket. --- [Four untitled tintypes by unknown photographers (details). 1870s]」6月20日 0時16分