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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        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.
        ISBN
        • 1565841077
        • 9781565841079
        • 1565841069
        • 9781565841062
        LCCN
        94003742
        OCLC
        30780407
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