Hugh Mangum

Hugh Mangum

Untitled #4 , 1897-1922
Photograph
60 x 91 cm
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Hugh Mangum - Untitled #4

Técnica: Archival Inkjet Print

Biografía del Artista: Hugh Mangum was a 19th- and early 20th-century American photographer who specialized in portraying people of diverse races and social classes. He was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, and began photographing in his teens. He worked primarily in North Carolina and Virginia, and was noted for his ability to capture the personality of his subjects and his interest in human diversity. Throughout his career, Mangum photographed a wide range of people, from farm workers to prominent African-American and white leaders. His images are notable for the way they present people of different social and ethnic backgrounds with dignity and respect. He often photographed his subjects in spontaneous poses and in informal interactions, reflecting his interest in human connection. Mangum also experimented with creative photography techniques, such as superimposition and manual alteration of photographic plates, which gave his images a unique, artistic quality. Although he did not receive wide recognition during his lifetime, his work has been rediscovered and appreciated in the modern era for its contribution to the history of photography and its depiction of human diversity. Today, his work has been exhibited in several galleries and museums in the United States and has been the subject of several books and documentaries. His work has been described as an example of photography's ability to connect people and create a historical record of the cultural diversity of an era. In short, Hugh Mangum was a groundbreaking photographer who captured human diversity and the dignity of his subjects through his ability to connect with them and his photographic creativity.

In this historic project we have collaborated with Duke University to bring the work of Hugh Mangum (1877-1922) to light for the first time in Europe. Following his unexpected death in 1922 at the age of 44, Mangum’s black-and-white glass plate negatives were stored and forgotten in the barn of the family farm in Durham, North Carolina. Doomed for demolition in the 1970s, the barn was saved at the last minute and with it this astonishing and extraordinary document of life from a turbulent time in the history of the American South. In the late 1890s, Mangum ventured out as an itinerant portrait photographer, traveling primarily through North Carolina and Virginia during the rise of the Jim Crow era, a period in which laws were being pushed for the segregation of blacks and whites. Nevertheless, his portraits reveal a clientele that was racially and economically diverse, depicting lives marked by hard work and opulence, all imbued with a strong sense of individuality and enterprise. One of the most profound surprises of Mangum's photography is its freshness, artistically speaking. He had a charm and curiosity that is often reflected in the faces of his subjects. In other images, his presence becomes invisible and the subjects seem lost in their inner, private worlds. Mangum's ability to capture these moments of vulnerability and intense self-recognition lies at the heart of his gift as a photographer. The people in these portraits look back at us from a century ago, through the indelible marks of loss and indifference. We might think that the difference of a century is considerable, and in many ways that is quite true. However, these portraits suggest to us that the distance between past and present, between them and us, is much smaller than we might expect.
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