PARIS1900

WORLD'S FAIR (EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE)

The Georgia Negro Exhibit

C. Portraits of Georgia Blacks

The Georgia Negro Exhibit included an album of photographs taken by an anonymous studio photographer that portrayed the physiological diversity of Georgia Blacks. Du Bois's purpose in presenting these photographs was to demonstrate how complex and varied American blacks were in an attempt to overcome racist stereotypes about their mental and physical characteristics. Unfortunately,  none of the subjects of the pictures are identified. They do, however, demonstrate the extraordinary diversity that was to be found among the black population living in Georgia at the beginning of the century.

Images included by Du Bois in his portraits of Geogia Blacks included individual portraits mounted two to a page like the ones above and front and side portraits of a single individual like those illustrated below.

Additional examples of the hundreds of portraits included by Du Bois and his students in the exhbit..