http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/ThroughDeafEyesbookpage.html

Through Deaf Eyes

Through Deaf Eyes
A Photographic History of an American Community

Douglas C. Baynton, Jack R. Gannon,
and Jean Lindquist Bergey

March 2007

In 2001, the Smithsonian Institution presented the landmark photographic exhibition History Through Deaf Eyes, representing nearly 200 years of United States deaf history. Drawing heavily on the extensive archives at Gallaudet University, the curators created an exhibition that drew more than 400,000 people viewed at the Smithsonian and in 12 cities during a five-year national tour. Its popularity prompted the production of a documentary film for national broadcast on the Public Broadcasting System. Now, the photographs, quotes, and stories from this remarkable exhibit and documentary have been assembled in a book of stunning beauty and poignant images, Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American Community.

Online Exhibition: https://gallaudet.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/institution/Deaf%20Eyes%20Exhibit/index.htm

Article about the Exhibition:

"Life and Deaf": Language and the Myth of "Balance" in Public History

Bergey, Jean Lindquist

Sign Language Studies, v8 n4 p330-347 Sum 2008

This article chronicles the protest to draft plans for an exhibition on Deaf history organized by Gallaudet University. Jean Bergey, director of the History through Deaf Eyes project, analyzes documents from letters of concern and offers context on the politics of public presentation of Deaf community history: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26190546?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents