Black Queen, White Queen

Photographer Gillian Laub’s “Southern Rites”, about segregated proms in the American South, became a touring exhibition produced by the International Center of Photography. In this interview the photographer explains the motivations that pushed her to start working on this topic, and what happened next.

Shelby on her grandmother’s car, Mount Vernon, Georgia, 2008. “All these people who run around screaming that the Confederate flag is racist, they’re not stupid. They’re ignorant. Because ignorance is the absence of really knowing what happened. I am...

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