Exhibit of contact sheets by five photographers opens October 26 at the Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center, in Jackson
JACKSON, Miss. — A new exhibit at the Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center brings together the work of five photographers who documented the civil rights movement in Mississippi between 1963 and 1966: Bob Fitch, Matt Herron, Jim Marshall, Jim Peppler and Tamio Wakayama. Some were journalists; some were members of the movement itself. Sixty years later, the exhibit asks the public for help naming the people in the photographs.
PROOF POSITIVE opens October 26 and runs through December 31, 2026, at the Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center, 528 Bloom St., Jackson. Most of the 51 works on view are enlarged contact sheets, reproduced from the originals, with the photographers’ grease-pencil marks and annotations included. The chosen frames from the contact sheets went to magazines and newspapers, and some later appeared in history books. The rest stayed in boxes. Many of the people in those frames have never been named…