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Combining critical fabulation and speculative annotation, I invite you to imagine who these sitters were, what their lives were like, and what may be taking place in the photographs.
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The pictures do not change, but we look at them through the favorable or unfavorable prevailing public opinion. - Frederick Douglas, from Lecture on Pictures, 1861
Mikayla B.About Narrating the Lives of Unidentified Sitters
This project engages with the practice of critical fabulation and incorporates speculative annotation as a meaning-making process to allow viewers to engage with unidentified sitters in archival photographs. "Narrating the Lives of Unidentified Sitters" is part of the "Naming the Unidentified, et al." exhibition at STELLA gallery. Archival materials are courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia.