Episode 213

Portrait Credit: Stu Rosner

Ep.213 SARAH LEWIS is the founder of Vision & Justice and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press), the bestseller, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (Simon & Schuster), and the forthcoming book Vision & Justice (One World/Random House). Lewis is the editor of the award-winning volumes, “Vision & Justice” by Aperture magazine and the anthology on the work of Carrie Mae Weems (MIT Press). She is the organizer of the landmark Vision & Justice Convening at Harvard University, and co-editor of the Vision & Justice Book Series, launched in partnership with Aperture. Her awards include the Infinity Award, the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Cullman Fellowship, the Freedom Scholar Award (ASALH), the Arthur Danto/ASA Prize from the American Philosophical Association, and the Photography Network Book Prize. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Artforum, and the New York Review of Books, and her work has been the subject of profiles from The Boston Globe to the New York Times. Lewis is a sought-after public speaker, with a mainstage TED talk that received over 3 million views. She received her BA from Harvard University, an MPhil from Oxford University, an MA from Courtauld Institute of Art, and her PhD from Yale University. She lives in New York City and Cambridge, MA.

Sarah Lewis https://sarahelizabethlewis.com/

Vision and Justice https://visionandjustice.org/

The Unseen Truth The Unseen Truth — Harvard University Press

New York Times Welcoming Underexposed Black Photographers Into the Canon – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

The Harvard Crimson Curating a Counter Narrative: Sarah E. Lewis on Art, Vision & Justice | Arts | The Harvard Crimson (thecrimson.com)

Hyperallergic Portrait Photography Through the Lens of Fredrick Douglass (hyperallergic.com)

Boston Globe Frederick Douglass recognized the power of being photographed (bostonglobe.com)

The Rise https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Rise/Sarah-Lewis/9781451629248

Justice and Vision https://visionandjustice.org/the-unseen-truth

Harvard University https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/sarah-lewis

Democratic Knowledge Project https://www.democraticknowledgeproject.org/sarah-lewis/

The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America
Cover image by @carriemaeweems
Cover design and trailer by @pacific_pacific