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Looking For Mr. Gilbert: African-American Photographer
March 30, 2005
John Hanson Mitchell writer

John Hanson Mitchell lectures on the life of the unassuming photographer Robert Alexander Gilbert.

Robert Alexander Gilbert was a 19th century African-American artist whose landscape photos remained unnoticed until author John Hanson Mitchell discovered more than 2,000 antique glass plate negatives in the corner of an old attic on an estate in Massachusetts. Mitchell presents slides of works by this talented artist and talks about the life of this Renaissance man who took haunting photos of the Boston landscape and its people.

Join us for this remarkable story of discovery of an important figure in American photography.

Art & Architecture | History
2D | American photography | Boston photography | glass plate photography | landscape photography | lost art | African American | Criticism | Experimental | Art History | Photography
WGBH
Museum of African American History
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