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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

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Lynching – murder with public sanction and political backing – pits the powerful against the powerless; pits a teeming mob against individual bodies, where regardless of guilt or innocence, those bodies stand not a chance. I thought of Als’s essay for a long time before finishing this piece, before choosing to refer to the image that I have, before exposing these bodies to another set of eyes in another place far away. To accompany the spirit of public lynchings then, people bought and sold and circulated picture-postcards of these lynchings, and sent them to family and friends accompanied by handwritten notes that said things like, “This is the barbecue we had last night.

When the first public exhibition opened in New York in 2000, The New York Times said the images “burn a hole in your heart. Looking at this picture, looking at the rest of the pictures in the book if we ever do (something that most of us will never do, something that only some of us should ever do), thinking of that nine-year old child, the question we should ask ourselves is this: what does it take to become one of the crowd? Not only were they not ashamed of their deeds, they recorded them for posterity, complete with "humorous" comments about "barbeques. I noticed there were some white people who were victims, to me that makes the level of animal like conduct more apparent.A Tiktok creator mentioned this book by name as notable photographic evidence of events in the timeline of human history that most would prefer to forget. All across the former Confederacy, blacks who were suspected of crimes against whites—or even "offenses" no greater than failing to step aside for a white man's car or protesting a lynching—were tortured, hanged and burned to death by the thousands. Litwack published to coincide with a 2000 circulating exhibition of examples from James Allen's collection of harrowing vintage photographic scenes of American lynchings. Perhaps a person can be so shaken and taken only once, for the unsettling chill that 'Without Sanctuary' produces in me has dampened my eyes not at all.

One of the photographs depicts my known family ancestor, so I wrapped my arms around him and thanked him for his life, for his contributions, for the smiles he must’ve given his beloveds. While I completely agree with the observations of Litwack, the book's photos show a propensity for lynch justice against all sorts of minorities: Italians, Jews, and poor whites etc. I found the introductory essay of this book, by Leon Litwack, to be really informative; it was very well footnoted with historical references, and describes the culture of lynching in the South, and its basis in white fear of blacks.One person interviewed in the book comments that in the late 19th and early 20th Century, it was always "open season" on Negroes, who were viewed as less than human - and they were tortured with methods not even used on animals. The exhibition, titled "Witness," documents lynchings from 1883 through 1960, mostly from the collection of James E. Many people today, despite the evidence, will not believe don't want to believe that such atrocities happened in America not so very long ago. Man what a fucked up bhook coming from someone who is a descendent of african of that time Im ashed thats apzrt of american history, one of things that make sme ashamed of bieng american, its so powerful photographs of a past that you dont wont to happen again.

These are the crowds that would routinely come to view and participate in the lynchings of the time, creating an atmosphere that was cheerful, celebratory, festive. In the white mobs gathered around the mutilated bodies — their faces cheerful, or impassive, or smug — Allen, who is white, saw the white men who made his earlier years growing up as a gay youth an ordeal. The things I was so pissed off about was these people and institutions and states, the state governments had buried this,” he said. The review ignited a hotbed of commentary over what some believed was the glorification, even the pornographication of violence against African-Americans.When I was in the fifth grade the television mini-series 'Roots' gathered the nation on a Sunday evening for its first episode. Hinshaw noted that there were always white spectators to lynching, even the photographs without crowds depicted.

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