#hugh mangum

Between the years 1897 and 1922, the photographer Hugh Mangum set up makeshift studios across North Carolina and Virginia, where he invited black and white portrait subjects to share space together. In an era of racial terror and Jim Crow segregation, Mangum’s work acts as a record of shared experience in the face of racist American customs and laws. 

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