Thomas Calloway Brothers Analysis

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“Brothers” is a piece that in the vain of my greater body of work in which I remake studio portraits from the late 1800s. The source of the artist’s portraits is The Exhibition of American Negroes organized by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas Calloway for the 1900 Paris International Exposition. The exhibition was a photographic, economic, and legislative survey of middle-class blacks in Georgia. To enact a transition, I re-imagine their form as photographs, physical presence, and relationships with viewers, and for the piece “Brothers” to each other. The Brothers are floating on top of solidified liquid, staring at each other, passively engaging one other as they are suspended in space. Contemplating each other’s presence, while fragments of themselves