Description: In recognition of Black History Month (2019) and its 2019 theme Black Migrations, the Auburn Avenue Research Library (AARL) will host the photographic exhibition Homecoming: The Windows and Mirrors of Black Portraiture, featuring selected images from AARL's archival collection. Homecoming: The Windows and Mirrors of Black Portraiture is a visualized metaphorical extension of the term migration, that emphasizes the use of portrait photography of and by Black people to construct and inhabit new social realities. This exhibition explores Black Portraiture as a transformative tool of self-representation and communal cultural preservation. In addition to mirroring the aesthetic aspirational sentiment within the Black Diasporic experience; these selected portraits also craft a compelling visual window into the radical self-reimaging of Blackness by the descendants of enslaved Africans, liberated from the White Eurocentric gaze. Curated by AARL staff this exhibition is made up of selected images from the African American Family History Association’s (AAFHA) This collection focuses on images of Black Georgia families from 1750 to the twentieth century. The mission of the AAFHA was "to engage the public in the research and appreciation of the family history of a people whose heritage has generally been unrecognized."

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