The Nanny Project
June 30, 2011 § Leave a comment
The exhibit that was mentioned in the previous post is called the Nanny Project by DH Cooper, a photographer who is a professor at the Art Institute of Charleston. Nanny Project is currently exhibited at the City Gallery in Charleston. Charlestonmag.com’s interview of the artist reveals that through “discarded photographs taken in the 1800s to the present of African-American nannies and the white children they helped raise, she examines the subjects, evaluates their social hierarchies, and then re-images the compositions, transferring the images to cloth, which she then embroiders and quilts. ‘By combining traditional crafts and manipulated photographs, DH Cooper questions the tradition and heightens the viewer’s awareness of contradictions that are still relevant today,” says co-curator Erin Glaze.’”
For more information about DH Cooper visit http://www.charlestonmag.com/charleston_magazine/feature/dh_cooper and her web site at www.dhcooper.com.
JUST LIKE FAMILY 
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