Picturing Us African American Identity in Photography |
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| Editor:
| Willis-Thomas, Deborah
Willis, Deborah |
| ISBN: | 978-1-56584-106-2 |
| Publication Date: | May 1996 |
| Publisher: | New Press, The
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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Winner of the International Center for Photography's 1995 Award for Writing on Photography, Picturing Us brings together a diverse group of African American writers, scholars, and filmmakers in the first concerted effort to analyze and respond to the photographic images of blacks through history. The book's contributors--including bell hooks, E. Ethelbert Miller, Angela Davis, and others--examine the personal and public issues embedded in family portraits and news...
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Winner of the International Center for Photography's 1995 Award for Writing on Photography, Picturing Us brings together a diverse group of African American writers, scholars, and filmmakers in the first concerted effort to analyze and respond to the photographic images of blacks through history. The book's contributors--including bell hooks, E. Ethelbert Miller, Angela Davis, and others--examine the personal and public issues embedded in family portraits and news photographs, movie stills and mug shots.