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Picturing us : African American identity in photography / edited by Deborah Willis.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : The New Press, [1994]
New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
© 1994
Description
xiii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
TR680 .P53 1994
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Subject(s)
Portrait photography
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African Americans
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Portraits
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African Americans
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Race identity
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Editor
Willis, Deborah, 1948-
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Portraits
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Getty AAT genre
portraits
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group portraits
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Summary note
In 18 stimulating essays, black writers, scholars and critics reflect on individual photographs-often a family snapshot-to address questions of black identity.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction : picturing us / Deborah Willis
When you meet Estella Smart, you been met! / Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
A Sunday portrait / Edward P. Jones
In our glory : photography and Black life / bell hooks
In my father's house there were no images / E. Ethelbert Miller
Gazing colored : a family album / Christian Walker
Grandmother's face and the legacy of Pomegranate Hall / Adele Logan Alexander
My grandmother died last night / Lisé Hamilton
The plaintiff speaks / Clarissa T. Sligh
Finding a space for myself in my film about color consciousness / Kathe Sandler
Affirmative action and the white backlash : notes from a child of apartheid / Luke Charles Harris
The erotic image is naked and dark / Carla Williams
Mug shot : suspicious person / Claudine K. Brown
The continuing drama of African American images in American cinema / St. Clair Bourne
How come nobody told me about the lynching? / Jacquie Jones
Hard core poverty / Paul A. Rogers
Afro images : politics, fashion, and nostalgia / Angela Y. Davis
Making noise : Marcus Garvey Dada, August 1922 / Robert A. Hill.
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ISBN
1565841077
9781565841079
1565841069
9781565841062
LCCN
94003742
OCLC
30780407
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