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Daufuskie Island: Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe at The Gibbes Museum of Art
10/23/2009 - 01/10/2010
Location: The Gibbes Museum of Art
Address: 135 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC
Web Site: http://www.gibbesmuseum.org
The Gibbes Museum of Art will present the exhibition Daufuskie Island: Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe in the Rotunda Galleries from October 23, 2009 through January 10, 2010. Featuring approximately 40 black and white photographs of individuals, family and work, the exhibition documents the Gullah community on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina from 1977 - 1981.
Ms. Moutoussamy-Ashe’s fascination with Daufuskie Island began during visits to the
neighboring resort island Hilton Head with her husband, Arthur Ashe, in the 1970s. Since the end of the Civil War until the island was developed, Daufuskie was inhabited primarily by the Gullah people—freed slaves and their descendants—whose distinctive language and culture remained strongly influenced by their African heritage. With no bridge to the mainland and no electricity or telephone service until the mid-1950s, the island’s residents lived in relative isolation from the rest of the world. Daufuskie was the last of the Sea Islands to be transformed by tourism and real estate development.
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe was given unique access to the Daufuskie Islanders and the resulting photographs were documented in the book Daufuskie Island: A Photographic Essay. Many of the photographs from that book are featured in the Gibbes exhibition. The book was recently released in an expanded 25th Anniversary Edition.
10/23/2009 - 01/10/2010
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