Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography

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.



Author: Deborah Willis-Thomas
Publisher: New Press
Published: 05/01/1996
Pages: 209
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781565841062
About the Author
Deborah Willis is curator of exhibitions at the National African American Museum Project of the Smithsonian Institute. Her previous books include Early Black Photographers: 1840 to 1940 and VanDerZee: Photographer 1886-1983. She lives in Washington, D.C.