The Boat Lullabies: African-American Portraits & Snapshots Has Arrived

February 02, 2008

African-American Portraits & Snapshots Has Arrived

I've finally got my new show, African-American Portraits & Snapshots up over at Square America. It's a lot bigger than I had planned- it's about 160 photos when I had originally planned on about 80-90. I'm still tinkering with it and will probably be making some minor changes over the next week or so. Because of the size of the show it takes a bit of time to load- about 45 seconds on my DSL line- but I wanted to keep it all on one page. I could have split it in two with the first section being 1900-1950 and the second section 1950-1975 but I find that when a show is on two pages only about 40% of people will click over to the second page and in a lot of ways the 50s and 60s stuff is the heart of the show. As I mentioned I did incorporate some home movie footage from my collection and I think it works pretty well. It's pretty neat to look at all these photos and then click on a film clip that sort of brings everything to life and certainly the film clips are far more interesting in the context of the show than they are on their own. I'll probably write a little bit more about the show tomorrow but until then here are a few more photos. **UPDATE** I had to take down 3 of the four video clips as they caused large grey boxes to appear elsewhere on the page when viewed with firefox. One of the clips doesn't seem to cause any problems so it's still up and running. I did try to embed the videos using vimeo rather than youtube but had the same problem. There were no problems when viewing the page with Safari. If anyone knows a quick fix to the problem please let me know.