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Synopsis
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.
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"A rare book [that] encourages us to look deeply into images of ourselves and carefully select what we accept as truth." —Quarterly Black Review
"Eighteen stimulating essays. . . . A worthy dialogue on an under-analyzed aspect of black history." —Publishers Weekly
"The importance of this collection of photographs and accompanying essays. . . cannot be overemphasized." —Belles Lettres
"The photographs alone. . . merit a trip to the bookstore. . . . One feels prodded to contemplate the interconnectedness of African American identity and visual images in unconventional, enlightening ways." — Emerge
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Deborah Willis, an expert on African American photography asks 18 writers, critics and film makers each to select a photograph of personal or historical significance and to "read" it for insights into the black experience. While some of the contributors write about family portraits - for instance, bell hooks and E. Ethelbert Miller write about their fathers - others have selected photographs of a more public and political nature - Jacquie Jones talks about lynchings, while Robert Hill analyzes the infamous picture of Marcus Garvey in a procession. The photographs and essays in this collection take the reader from the "great black migration" to the Harlem Renaissance, from southern lynchings to northern integration, from musings about black female subjectivity in art to the objectification of the black male in the whilte American psyche. Even the analysis of family portraits convey a broad sense of African American history. So a picture in which family members are arranged lightest to darkest repreestnts more than happenstance: it exposes how gradations of colour have divided the black community since slavery.
Contributors include Adele Alexander, St Clair Bourne, Claudine Brown, Angela Davis, Vertamae Grosvenor, Lise Hamilton, Luke Charles Harris, Robert Hill, bell hooks, Edward P. Jones, Jacquie Jones, E. Ethelbert Miller, Paul Rogers, Kathe Sandler, Clarissa Sligh, Christian Walker and Carla Williams."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherThe New Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1565841069
- ISBN 13 9781565841062
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages209
- EditorWillis-Thomas Deborah, Willis Deborah
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