What Matters Most
![Group of people smiling at a table looking Polaroids](/sites/default/files/styles/max_800x800/public/2022-06/AGO.153316-Web%20and%20Standard%20PowerPoint.jpg?itok=-IsZlaNE)
Unknown photographer, [Group gathered inside looking at Polaroids], 1962. Black and white instant print (Polaroid Type 107), 8.5 x 10.8 cm. Purchase, with funds donated by Martha LA McCain, 2018. © Art Gallery of Ontario. 2018/982.
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What Matters Most
Join poet and essayist Dawn Lundy Martin for a conversation with artist Zun Lee and AGO Curator, Photography Sophie Hackett about the exhibition What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life, featuring photographs from the AGO’s Fade Resistance Collection. Assembled by Zun Lee, the collection gathers Polaroid instant prints of African-American family life from the 1960s to the early 2000s. They will explore the role of photographs in creating and maintaining a sense of Black identity, memory and loss, the ethics of institutional versus communal care, and the importance of safeguarding visual culture.
The event will launch the hardcover publication, co-published by the AGO and Delmonico Books/D.A.P., with texts by Lee and Hackett, as well as Dawn Lundy Martin, and cultural theorists Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life.
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