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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine to fine condition. First edition. Oblong Quarto. 167 (1)pp. Original bright red paper-covered boards with black and white lettering on cover and spine; in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with white and black lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. Title page printed in t…wo tones to gray-brown paper. "From the 1930s to the 1970s, Charles "Teenie" Harris traveled the alleys, workplaces, nightclubs and streets of his native city of Pittsburgh with a Speed Graphic camera in hand. Working first as a freelancer, then as a staff photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the preeminent black news weeklies in America, Harris ceaselessly chronicled half a century of African-American life. His work, collected for the first time in this book, offers a rare look into the African-American community during and after the Civil Rights movement." (Publisher). Profusely illustrated with b/w full page photographs throughout. Contains an essay on Charles "Teenie" Harris by Stanley Crouch and a biographical essay by Deborah Willis. Index at rear. Laid in a photo-illustrated invitation to a reception for the exhibition "One Shot Harris" at the Tampa Gallery of Photographic Arts in 2005. Minor wear along edges of dustjacket, else in fine condition.
