# @gettymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ2PKQvPbSW
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34228598-gettymuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/dfe29fdc9f.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-02-11T18:41:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

Learn about April Banks's work.

Originally trained as an architect, April Banks is an L.A.-based artist whose career spans conceptual art, social practice, and exhibition design.

In these images, Banks mixes photographs of the slave-trading posts of Saint-Louis and Gorée Island, Senegal, by French colonial photographer Pierre Tacher from the early 1900s with her own architectural studies of the same places from over a century later. The results are new and often haunting visions of archival photographs of Africans by a white European photographer.
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🏷 #GettyMuseum #BlackHistoryMonth #AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth #Photographs #Diptychs #Architecture #Camera #Photography #ConceptualArt

Images: 
1. Untitled, 2016, April Banks. Getty Museum. © April Banks
2. Untitled, 2016, April Banks. Getty Museum. © April Banks
3. Untitled, 2016, April Banks. Getty Museum. © April Banks

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photographs, gettymuseum, photography, diptychs, africanamericanhistorymonth, architecture, conceptualart, camera, blackhistorymonth

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