Carrie Bickner

This Friday, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights opens at the International Center of Photography.

For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s. This exhibition of 230 photographs, objects and clips from television and film looks at the extent to which the rise of the modern civil rights movement paralleled the birth of television and the popularity of picture magazines and other forms of visual mass media.

This is the first major project I have been involved in since opening my own shop last year.  I created the educational materials that will accompany the online exhibition.

Maurice Berger, the exhibition’s curator, has published a companion book.

The show opens at International Center of Photography in New York (21 May to 12 September 2010) and will travel to  the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (tentatively, 15 June to 30 October 2011); and the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, UMBC (September 2012 to January 2013). Other venues will be announced.