Using Photography to Tell Stories About Race
Maurice Berger, a research professor and curator, looks back on the events that led him to write about race and photography.
I stood in the lunchroom doorway with my friend Kevin, bewildered. It was our first week at the High School of Music and Art, a West Harlem public school, and we had become instant friends. Still, I did not know where I belonged in a room that had casually self-segregated into racial camps where “minority” teens gravitated to one side, whites to the other.