Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation "Lessons of the Hour" interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass.
Ralph Gibson, Self Portrait, from the portfolio Quadrants, 1975, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts 1983.63.600.