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drawn to Victoria Bell, the mother depicted in the photo holding her
baby and surrounded by her children. When asked what he wanted
viewers of the photo to take away from it, he responded, "I wanted
them to feel her humanity."
Francisco Maldonado '23, A , who was enrolled in the
Introduction to Museum and Curatorial Studies course, tackled
the volume of the collection by first making mental markers of
photos that stood out to him aesthetically, and then choosing in
pairs, ultimately selecting through historical and aesthetic lenses.
He chose Gene Herrick's
Flower Tribute to Dr. King, a photo of the
balcony of the Lorraine Motel, because of its significance in the civil
rights movement and the visual weight the flowers, an homage to Dr.
Ma in Luther King Jr., held in the photo.
Reflecting on life today, he feels that the photographs in
Continued Relevance are less a celebration of beauty, and more a
grounded example of our ever-evolving society, with justice as a
common theme.
"They are distributive, procedural, retributive, and restorative.
The plethora of events that happened around these photographs
sparks conversations between the photos and the viewer. We only
transmute our society by understanding how justice can still be
found in the past," he said.
An Interdisciplinary Approach
The process of curation is both an a and a science; it is also
interdisciplinary in nature, and therefore reflective of Dyson's
offerings as a college of liberal a s and sciences. It is not surprising,
then, that student inspiration was derived from both within and
outside of their majors.
Akinyele's process, for example, was informed by his reading
