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Photographs of immaculate, domestic interiors are common to us today, with countless images of private homes readily found in design magazines and on social media. The tradition of documenting personal rooms, however, was an exclusive one when it emerged in Europe at the start of the 19th century. Before the advent of photography, those who could afford to commissioned artists to paint small, highly detailed watercolors of the interiors of their homes that they would then slip, like photographs, into display albums. Such paintings offer a glimpse into the decadent lifestyles of the 19th century’s well-to-do and the art of recording finely decorated interior spaces. Currently, 47 such paintings are featured in House Proud, an exhibition at the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.

From Doreen Garner’s portfolio in BOMB:

“I identify, extract, and exploit the tissues that bind the sexual and the grotesque, specifically regarding the black female body. Treated as spectacle and disposable specimen, these women and their stories—Henrietta Lacks, Saartjie Baartman, the victims of Dr. J. Marion Sims—are a driving force. Identifying the voyeur as the subject, an oppositional gaze is directed towards fetish, objectification, and racism.

There Goes the ‘Hood, by Lance Freeman, 2006

Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning, by Craig Anthony Arnold, 2007

Aesthetics of Equity, by Craig Wilkins, 2007

Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States, by Victoria Kaplan, 2006

The Crisis of the African-American Architect: Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and (Black) Power, by Melvin Mitchell , 2002

Urban Planning and the African-American Community, by June Manning Thomas, 1997

Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit, June Manning Thomas, 1997

Planning Atlanta, by Harley F. Etienne and Barbara Faga, 2015  

The Black Metropolis in the 21st Century: Race, Power, and the Politics of Place, edited by Robert Bullard, 2007

Growing Smarter:  Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity, edited by Robert Bullard, 2007

Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World, edited by Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard and Bob Evans, 2003

Race, Poverty, and American Cities, by John Charles Boger, 1993

Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, 1962

Everything from David Harvey

Special Issue: Ebony, August 1967

The Chicago: Mighty, Lord visual narrative, takes a look further into the Ebony magazine (special issue) published 48 years ago, this month.