TEENIE HARRIS PHOTOGRAPHER : Image, Memory, History

Chery Finleyl / Laurence A. Glasco / Joe William Trotter Jr / Introduction by Deborah Willis

ISBN 10: 0822944146 / ISBN 13: 9780822944140

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh , PA., 2011

About this Item

1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 2011, Light brown cloth hardcover with the dust jacket, 208 page book. Explores Charles Teenie Harris's artistry along with the social and historical context of his photographs, and provides a detailed biography of the photographer whose archive of more the 70,000 images is considered one of the most important documentations of 20th. century African American life. Harris's work is explored through nearly 200 reproductions , including 100 plates of his signature images. Condition : As New Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TEENIE HARRIS PHOTOGRAPHER : Image, Memory, History
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh , PA.
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822944146
• ISBN 13: 9780822944140
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Charles " Teenie" Harris
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography / Art / Monograph / Documentary

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Synopsis

Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of Art With an introduction by Deborah Willis The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998). But it’s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, friendship, and family. In jazz clubs, Little League games, beauty contests, church functions, boxing matches, political events, protest marches, and everyday scenes, Teenie Harris captured the essence of African American life in Pittsburgh. Harris’s career began as America emerged from the Great Depression and ended after the civil rights movement. As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s most influential black newspapers, Teenie hit the streets to record historic events and the people who lived them. The archive of Harris’s photography, in the permanent collection of Carnegie Museum of Art, represents one of the most important documentations of twentieth-century African Americans and their communities. Today, even as Teenie Harris’s photography stands alongside that of Harlem’s famed James VanDerZee, his work in Pittsburgh’s Hill District surpasses that of all other photographers in its breadth and rich portrayal of black urban America.

About the Author

Cheryl Finley is assistant professor of art history at Cornell University. She is coauthor of Imaging African Art: Documentation and Transformation.

Laurence Glasco is associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Ethnicity and Social Structure: Irish, Germans, and Native-Born of Buffalo, N.Y., 1850–1860 and editor of The WPA History of the Negro

Joe W. Trotter is Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice, head of the history department, and director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of nume