HUGH MANGUM: American Visionary 1877-1922
In collaboration with ACA Galleries in New York.
Hugh Mangum, born in Durham, North Carolina, became a photographer at the height of Jim Crow racial segregation, discrimination, and violence. He defied key traditions of his age and time, social and artistic. His work, mostly unknown to the world, since Mangum’s premature death in 1922, has come alive in a remarkable new limited edition, conceived, restored and printed by Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris. Recently exhibited at ACA Galleries in New York.
HUGH MANGUM: American Visionary 1877-1922
“Rendered here with the aid of twenty-first-century digital technology, Hugh Mangum’s portraits demonstrate the unpredictable alchemy that often characterizes the most enduring art—its ability over time to evolve with and absorb life and meaning beyond the intentions or expectations of the artist.”
Each photograph is personally printed by Alex Harris and Margaret Sartor, master printers and co-curators of the 2019 Hugh Mangum Exhibit at the Nasher Museum, and authors of the landmark book Where We Find Ourselves - The Photographs Of Hugh Mangum 1897-1922. Each archival print is from a numbered limited edition of ten, and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Sartor and Harris, bearing the stamp and authorization of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, owner of the glass negatives.