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The River Jordan by Jeanine Michna-Bales, 2014, Digital C-Print, Panorama
2014

Name: The River Jordan by Jeanine Michna-Bales, 2014, Digital C-Print, Panorama
Brand: Jeanine Michna-Bales
Price: 6900 USD
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The River Jordan. First view of a free state, crossing the Ohio River to Indiana by Jeanine Michna-Bales is a panoramic photograph of a river taken at night. This photograph is from the series: Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, where Michna-Bales photographs the path slaves took to freedom, recreating what it may have looked like to take this journey. Digital C-Print Image size: 25 x 104 inches, Paper size: 30 x 109 inches Edition of 8 Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales Series: Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad Artist Statement: From a cotton plantation just South of Natchitoches, Louisiana all the way north to Canada, this series of photographs helps us imagine what the long road from slavery to freedom may have looked like as seen through the eyes of one of those who made this epic journey, circa 1840. They left during the middle of the night — often carrying little more than the knowledge that moss grows on the north side of trees. An estimated 100,000 American slaves between 1800 and the end of The Civil War in 1865 chose to embark on this journey of untold hardships in search of freedom. They moved in constant fear of being killed outright or recaptured then returned and beaten as an example of what would happen to others who might choose to run. Under the cover of darkness, ‘fugitives’ traveled roughly 20 miles each night traversing rugged terrain while enduring all the hardships that Mother Nature could bring to bear. Occasionally, they were guided from one secret, safe location to the next by an ever-changing, clandestine group known as the Underground Railroad. Whether they were slaves trying to escape or free blacks and whites trying to help, both sides risked everything for the cause of freedom. Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales spent over a decade meticulously researching ‘fugitive’ slaves and the ways they escaped to freedom. Due to the secrecy surrounding the Underground Railroad, research on the topic is still coming to light. The unnumbered routes of the Railroad encompassed countless square miles. The path Michna-Bales documented encompasses roughly 2,000 miles—starting in Louisiana, crossing through seven states and ending in Canada. It is based off actual sites, cities and places that freedom-seekers passed through during their journey to freedom. The images from the series were captured over a three-year period and are currently being printed in a trade book published by Princeton Architectural Press and will be released February 7, 2017. Many books have been written over the years on the subject, but because of its secretive nature, there is very little visual documentation of the Underground Railroad. The goal of this project is to provide a sense of what it would be like to take this journey out of bondage; to run in fear for roughly three months with very little help along the way, seeking that fundamental human right of freedom. In today’s America, as we become more and more diverse and cross-cultural, Michna-Bales believes that an appreciation and understanding of the experience—and those who lived through it—is more relevant than ever. The Underground Railroad united people from different races, genders, social levels, religions and regions in a common and worthwhile cause. It was the first Civil Rights Movement within America. Michna-Bales hopes the project makes people want to learn more, ask questions and open a dialogue on the subject, and in the end, provide a better understanding of where we all came from.

Creator:

Jeanine Michna-Bales (1971, American)

Creation Year:

2014

Dimensions:

Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 109 in (276.86 cm)Depth: 0.07 in (1.78 mm)

More Editions & Sizes:

Image size: 12.5 x 52 in., Paper size: 16.5 x 56 in., Edition of 12Price: $3,500Image size: 17 x 70.75 in., Paper size: 21 x 74.75 in., Edition of 9Price: $4,600

Medium:

Digital

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2010-

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Dallas, TX

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU21514297662

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Jeanine Michna-Bales

Jeanine Michna-Bales is a fine artist working in the medium of photography. Her work explores our fundamentally important relationships – to the land, to other people and to oneself – and how they impact contemporary society. Her work lives at the intersection of curiosity and knowledge, documentary and fine art, past and present, anthropology and sociology, and environmentalism and activism. Her practice is based on in-depth research – taking into account different viewpoints, causes and effects, political climates – and she often incorporates primary source material into her projects. Michna-Bales’s work is in many permanent collections including Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke University, Durham, NC; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Louisiana State University, Hill Memorial Library, Baton Rouge, LA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX; and University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and online blogs, including BBC World News, CityLab from The Atlantic, Dallas Morning News, DCist.com, Feature Shoot, Geo Historie, Hyperallergic, In Sight by The Washington Post, In the In-Between, Los Angeles Times, Lenscratch, Musée Magazine, NBC4 Washington D.C., New York Times Lens Blog, Orion Magazine, O The Oprah Magazine, Oxford American Eyes on the South, pdn Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Spot Magazine, Transition from Harvard University, UK Daily Mail, Virginia Quarterly Review, WABE 90.1 Atlanta’s NPR Station, WCPN-NPR and WVIZ-PBS ideastream Cleveland, Wired Raw File, Zoom Magazine, among others. Including other honors, her work was selected for the 2016 Documentarian of The American South Collection Award from the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. She was awarded the top Portfolio Review Prize at PhotoNOLA 2015, resulting in a solo show at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery during PhotoNOLA 2016. Michna-Bales was named to the Critical Mass Top 50 in 2014 and in 2017. She conceives and presents her projects in a way that spark curiosity about a given subject and encourage discourse among audiences of all backgrounds. Whether exploring the darkened stations along the Underground Railroad in Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad (2002 - 2016), a campaign trail for women’s votes in Standing Together: Inez Milholland’s Final Campaign for Women’s Suffrage (2016 - 2020), long-forgotten nuclear fallout shelters in Fallout: A Look Back at the Height of the Cold War in America, circa 1960 (2013 - present), or the invisible epicenters of environmental turmoil through the project Terra Fractura: A Visual Survey of Manmade Earthquakes (2015 - present), her work seeks out places that are hidden in plain sight.