Photography and the Surveillance of Blackness @bardgradcenter
Photography and the Surveillance of Blackness  @bardgradcenter
Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Reflections by Simone Browne (University of Texas at Austin) and American Artist, followed by a conversation with Drew Thompson (BGC)

Join us for the first of three events in which Bard Graduate Center faculty member Drew Thompson explores the Polaroid as an object of Black material culture. In this conversation, Thompson is joined by Simone Browne, sociologist and author of "Dark Matter: On the Surveillance of Blackness," and the acclaimed contemporary artist American Artist.
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Photography and the Surveillance of Blackness

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