Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain sustainable Author: Osei Bonsu

Author: Osei Bonsu

it has continued for generations in Black cultures around the world

All across the Americas

and queen mothers to signify status and authority

Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain sustainable Author: Osei BonsuA collection of extraordinary 19th century portraits that radically shifts our understanding of the presence and identities of Black people in Victorian Britain. These striking studio portraits, curated and brought together following ten years of research championed by Autograph, constitute the most comprehensive collection of 19th century photography depicting the Black subject in the Victorian era, including some of the earliest known images of