{"product_id":"frances-benjamin-johnston-the-hampton-album","title":"Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton Album","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781633450813\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2020\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Museum of Modern Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eComprised of 159 extraordinary platinum plates, Frances Benjamin Johnston's Hampton Album documents life at the Hampton Institute marking a pivotal moment in this historically black university's history\u003c\/b\u003e . Frances Benjamin Johnston (American, 1864-1952), one of the first women in America to work as a professional photographer, was commissioned in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, then a thirty year old institution dedicated to the practical and academic education of freed slaves and Native Americans. What became known as the Hampton Album - comprised of 159 platinum plates exhibited in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris - is Johnston's signature work, and has become a touchstone for contemporary historians and artists. The leather-bound album was discovered serendipitously by Lincoln Kirstein in a Washington, D.C. bookstore during World War II and donated to MoMA in 1965.","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":43032883888217,"sku":"PR914809","price":138.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2551\/5502\/files\/image_TIBH0M8E3XV0.jpg?v=1769919638","url":"https:\/\/smartfox.co.nz\/products\/frances-benjamin-johnston-the-hampton-album","provider":"SmartfoxNZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}