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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
FILLED WITH GRAPHIC, UNFORGETTABLE IMAGES, THE EXHIBIT AND BOOK entitled Without Sanctuary displays 60 lynchings framed as picture postcards. Borrowed from the collection of James E. Allen and John Littlefield, they represent a mere fraction of the cards distributed to friends and relatives across the country. Allen, who originally entitled the exhibit "Witness" when it first appeared in NYC in February 2000, notes that "everything is for sale in America, even a national shame." The victims, almost exclusively Black, were lynched between 1883 and 1960 in a grotesque atmosphere of celebration, with or without evidence of a crime. When Mary Turner of Lowndes County, Georgia swore vengeance against the mob that killed her husband, she was hung upside down, disemboweled and...