{"id":42911,"date":"2015-09-27T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42911"},"modified":"2015-10-27T00:47:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:47:37","slug":"zun-lees-polaroid-archive-preserves-african-american-self-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42911","title":{"rendered":"Zun Lee\u2019s Polaroid Archive Preserves African-American Self-Representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pdnpulse.pdnonline.com\/2015\/08\/zun-lees-polaroid-archive-preserves-african-american-self-representation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Zun Lee\u2019s Polaroid Archive Preserves African-American Self-Representation<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pdnpulse.pdnonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Photo District News<\/a><br \/>\n2015-08-26<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:Holly.Hughes@emeraldexpo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Hughes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zunlee.com\" target=\"_blank\">Zun Lee<\/a> is dedicated to countering stereotypical, often negative views of the African-American family. While he was working on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceibafoto.com\/goodies\/father-figure-the-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">Father Figure<\/a><\/em>, his book about African-American fathers, he stumbled on some old <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Instant_film\" target=\"_blank\">Polaroids<\/a> that appeared to have fallen from a family photo album. He was intrigued to see how the Polaroids \u2014\u201dthe Instagrams of their day,\u201d he calls them \u2014 reflected \u201cthe way black people saw themselves in private spaces and in ways not intended to be seen, or judged, by others.\u201d By searching yard sales and e-Bay, Lee has amassed 3,000 of these now \u201corphaned\u201d mementoes and recently began posting them on a <a href=\"http:\/\/faderesistance.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tumbler<\/a> and an <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/faderesistance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram feed<\/a> named \u201cFade Resistance.\u201d After winning a <a href=\"http:\/\/pdnpulse.pdnonline.com\/2015\/08\/magnum-foundation-grants-2-fellowships-to-support-collaborative-documentary-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\">Magnum Foundation Fellowship<\/a> last week, Lee now plans to develop his Fade Resistance collection into an interactive digital archive that will allow the public and collaborators from other disciplines to add their own stories, videos and images. His long-term goal, he says, is \u201cto encourage new ways of understanding black identity and representation in today\u2019s world.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/pdnpulse.pdnonline.com\/2015\/08\/zun-lees-polaroid-archive-preserves-african-american-self-representation.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zun Lee\u2019s Polaroid Archive Preserves African-American Self-Representation Photo District News 2015-08-26 Holly Hughes Photographer Zun Lee is dedicated to countering stereotypical, often negative views of the African-American family. While he was working on Father Figure, his book about African-American fathers, he stumbled on some old Polaroids that appeared to have fallen from a family photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,8,20],"tags":[21200,21201,21199,147,15283],"class_list":["post-42911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-holly-hughes","tag-holly-stuart-hughes","tag-photo-district-news","tag-photography","tag-zun-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42912,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911\/revisions\/42912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}