Photograph taken at the start of 2015's Baltimore uprising became a sensation

Photograph taken at the start of 2015's Baltimore uprising became a sensation

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Curator Aaron Bryant recently spoke² to NPR about his favorite Black photographs in the Smithsonian's collection. He recalls an image taken during the 2015 Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore.

A MARTINEZ, HOST:

For Black History Month, NPR asked the Smithsonian about some of the most notable examples of Black photographs in its collection. One striking image was captured not that long ago at a protest in 2015.

(SOUNDBITE OF HERBIE HANCOCK'S "ONE FINGER SNAP")

AARON BRYANT: My name is Aaron Bryant, and I'm curator of photography and visual culture at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

(SOUNDBITE OF HERBIE HANCOCK'S "ONE FINGER SNAP")

BRYANT: Photography is so critical to all of our lives in being able to record important moments, events that have happened, and they provide evidence, as well as memory.

(SOUNDBITE OF LIONEL LOUEKE'S "ONE FINGER SNAP")

BRYANT: We have photographers like Devin Allen, who immediately, you know, during the Freddie Gray protest in Baltimore, pretty much overnight, became this sort of sensation in the world of photography worldwide. It was the very beginning of what we would know as the Baltimore uprisings. There's the photograph of the young man running down the middle of a street, and behind him is a line of police officers who are chasing him.

(SOUNDBITE OF LIONEL LOUEKE'S "ONE FINGER SNAP")

BRYANT: That image, within weeks, was on the front cover of Time magazine, and that helped Devin to explode, you know, someone who was an amateur photographer at the time. His images have become iconic, and he's recognized by photographers, photojournalists, editors, all over the world.

(SOUNDBITE OF DON BYRON'S "ONE FINGER SNAP")

BRYANT: And that's really powerful that a single photograph could do that - that he puts it on social media, it's shared by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people, including folks like Jay-Z or Beyonce or Rihanna or, you know, celebrities³ who have access to millions of people, and immediately, with this photograph, he becomes an overnight sensation. And that photograph that Devin took is most certainly iconic 'cause he captured a flashpoint that people will remember all their lives but also a flashpoint that has itself become not just a moment of time but a moment in history.

(SOUNDBITE OF BRANDEE YOUNGER'S "BEAUTIFUL IS BLACK")

MARTINEZ: That was Aaron Bryant, a curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 celebrities   

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

参考例句：

• He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
• a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目