NOW ON VIEW
Our Time, Our Place: Photographs of the
Black South by Richard Samuel Roberts
By Brian J. Lang, Curator of Decorative Arts
In one photograph, a young boy looks
plaintively toward the camera, dressed in
undoubtedly his finest wool suit, his prized
rooster gently clutched under his arm. In
another, the Reverend Charles Jaggers sits
regally in a finely carved chair, his Bible in
one hand and his cane in the other.
These are the faces of African Americans
who lived in Columbia and across
South Carolina during the 1920s and
1930s, as captured by African American
photographer Richard Samuel Roberts.
This December, the Columbia Museum of
Art proudly unveiled an exhibition of 23
images taken by Roberts, selected by the
Advisory Committee and the Board of the
Museum’s newest affiliate group, Friends of
African American Art and Culture.
Our Time, Our Place: Photographs of the
Black South by Richard Samuel Roberts,
on view in Gallery 15 through April
29, illustrates the richness and diversity
of Roberts’s oeuvre. The images in the
exhibition are just a fraction of the more
than ten thousand images he is estimated
to have made during his career.
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