Joseph Desler Costa in “The Drowned” at Alabama Contemporary

Image: Joseph Desler Costa, “Hand Variant,” 2018. Artworks by Joseph Desler Costa will be on view in the exhibition “The Drowned” at Alabama Contemporary Art Center from March 13 – June 13, 2020: In 1840, French photographer Hippolyte Bayard (1801-1887) created the first staged photograph in a piece titled “Self-Portrait