The overall message of this exhibit is examining the founding documents (as well as other documents that were made into law in America) and showing that although these documents spoke about freedom and justice for all, until recently in history they only pertain to a small group of this country. Once you first walk into the Records of Rights exhibit the first document you see is the Magna Carta a document that speak about rights of human beings, though it is not a founding document it still sets the tone of this exhibit. This is exhibit is meant to be informative and enlightening to the public. Although there have been many strides in civil rights in our country since its founding it took centuries for those strides to be made. Even though
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This was the most somber exhibit for me. The curators constructed the area with galvanize roofs and brick wall. All around were black and white photos, it felt oppressive to me. This exhibit used digitally restore footage from the March on Washington in 1963 and footage of Martin Luther Kings’ TV interview on civil rights. The video was very clear and had to be remaster if it is over half a century old it would not have been that crisp. Some photographs were a quad tone (like the smaller photo of the girl and man in the March on Washington) and others duo tone (like the photo of the black soldiers during civil …show more content…
The area was somber/dark and hopeful/light at the same time. The lighting was dim, but the colors for the panel were a bright yellow. I felt that this reflected how immigrants felt once they enter our country. They were hopeful for a new start in the land of opportunity, but were met with many restrictions. This can be seen with the many restrictive document place around the section as well as the fences used to section off the exhibit. In the late 1880s, America became tighter with its immigration laws (like the Chinese exclusion act), and attitudes towards immigrants in the country became hostile. The curators used recreations of the many documents (cover in plexiglass). The smaller document were cropped and blown up, for instance, the image of the of the young Asian boy’s immigration card. Also some of the pictures of immigrants were placed behind the fencing that surrounded the exhibit. Showing how laws were created to keep the immigrants out of the
This was the most somber exhibit for me. The curators constructed the area with galvanize roofs and brick wall. All around were black and white photos, it felt oppressive to me. This exhibit used digitally restore footage from the March on Washington in 1963 and footage of Martin Luther Kings’ TV interview on civil rights. The video was very clear and had to be remaster if it is over half a century old it would not have been that crisp. Some photographs were a quad tone (like the smaller photo of the girl and man in the March on Washington) and others duo tone (like the photo of the black soldiers during civil …show more content…
The area was somber/dark and hopeful/light at the same time. The lighting was dim, but the colors for the panel were a bright yellow. I felt that this reflected how immigrants felt once they enter our country. They were hopeful for a new start in the land of opportunity, but were met with many restrictions. This can be seen with the many restrictive document place around the section as well as the fences used to section off the exhibit. In the late 1880s, America became tighter with its immigration laws (like the Chinese exclusion act), and attitudes towards immigrants in the country became hostile. The curators used recreations of the many documents (cover in plexiglass). The smaller document were cropped and blown up, for instance, the image of the of the young Asian boy’s immigration card. Also some of the pictures of immigrants were placed behind the fencing that surrounded the exhibit. Showing how laws were created to keep the immigrants out of the