Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World’s Fair
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York
Through May 29
It has been almost five years already since Princeton Architectural Press published W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1900 Paris Exposition data portraits as a visually riveting paperback. After public release in digitized form by the Library of Congress and in various printed color formats in a number of magazines, it would seem that the data portraits had been given their due. Graphic designers oohed and aahed over the cutting-edge modernity of the data portraits and their prescience in terms of data visualization. Important social science labs even commissioned
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