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During the Jim Crow era, when minstrel shows and racist caricatures accounted for nearly all visual representations of Black people in distinguished self-portraits that shattered stereotypes.
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The collection has the power to change the historical narrative of Black life in Central Virginia during the 19th and early 20th century.
The Holsinger Collection exhibit Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style and Racial Uplift features photographs taken by well-known Charlottesville photographer Rufus Holsinger.
Wearing a stiff hat adorned with small flowers and a fine, lacey blouse, the lone woman gazes directly into the lens – and hence at the viewer, her expression as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa’s.Her identity is currently a mystery, one of the many unknow