# @beineckelibrary on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CuMpJ69NI2h
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35830597-beineckelibrary-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/1ab4c95da2.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-07-02T14:00:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Beinecke Library (@beineckelibrary) — https://gondola.cc/beineckelibrary

## Caption

The narrator of Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man tells his story from underground in a retreat of his own construction. In 1952, the year the novel was published, Ellison collaborated with photographer Gordon Parks on a series of images that staged scenes from the novel. A selection of these photographs appeared in Life magazine, where Parks was a staff photographer. The article, entitled “A Man Becomes Invisible,” included just four photographs. The three versions on view at the Beneicke were captured in a single photo shoot. Titled Man Emerging, Emerging Man, and The Invisible Man – suggesting different interpretations of the novel’s famous final line: “Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?”

This is part of our current, exhibition, Revisiting the Past-Imagining the Future, which is on view until July 9th! Check out this and more at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library!

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| Beinecke Library | @beineckelibrary | https://gondola.cc/beineckelibrary | University |
| Shelagh Laverty | @Shelagh_Laverty | https://gondola.cc/Shelagh_Laverty | Creative Media Intern |

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