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In the late 1970s, the University of Virginia inherited 10,000 glass plate negatives from the Holsinger Studio. Among them were 600 portraits self-commissioned by Black Virginians. John Edwin Mason sat with those images for years, dreaming up the perfect team to bring them to life. He found his team. Now, through the “Visions of StyleContinue reading “Portraits of Dignity, Style, and Racial Uplift”