Sarah Hoskins New Zion, Kentucky Photoprints
name: label: Creator
content: Hoskins, Sarah
place: label: Place
content: New Zion (Ky.)
label: Place
content: Kentucky -- 2000-2010
topic: label: Topic
content: Slaughtering and slaughter-houses
label: Topic
content: Meat industry and trade
label: Topic
content: Hogs
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Sarah Hoskins.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hoskins, Sarah
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content: Sarah Hoskins New Zion, Kentucky Photoprints
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collections consists of fifteen black and white photographs of hog slaughter in New Zion, Kentucky, taken by Sarah Hoskins in 2002.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sarah Hoskins (b. 1961) is a documentary photographer and lecturer based in the Midwest. She attended Columbia College Chicago (BA, 1983), graduating with a degree in photography. The photographs are from a larger series, "The African-American Hamlets of Kentucky's Inner Bluegrass Region," a fourteen year project that was featured on National Public Radio in 2010 and awarded by the White House News Photographers Association in 2011. Hoskins has been awarded many honors, fellowships, and exhibitions throughout her career.

Sources

"Bio" Sarah Hoskins Photography. (Accessed August 08, 2016. http://www.sarahhoskins.com/bio/.)

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago. http://www.mocp.org/collection/mpp/past/hoskins_sarah.php (Accessed September 22, 2016)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2002
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1124
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged into one series. Each folder contains three photographs.

Series 1: Photographs, 2002
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by David Haberstich, 2002 and Holly Nelson, 2016.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 2000-2010
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Collection consists of fifteen black and white images of hog slaughter in New Zion, Kentucky.

The subject of the photographs is hog slaughter.  The series is part of a larger group by the photographer entitled "The African-American Hamlets of Kentucky's Inner Bluegrass Region."  Of this subgroup, Hoskins writes:

"I suppose many people will say, "hog killing, how barbaric" and the thing I remember most from that night is a gentle voice, "let go piggy, let go, come on pig let go" coaxing a hog to die.

"How I was allowed into this group I still do not know.  It seemed a club to me, all these men working as a team probably not talking as much as they normally would since I was there, me a strange  white woman from the city there to photograph
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials at Other Organizations

Duke University Libraries

Sarah Hoskins photographs, 2000-2014

The collection contains images related to two photography projects by Sarah Hoskins: The Rosenwald Schools and The Homeplace