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A study of African American identity is the creation of an expert on African-American photography who asked writers, critics, and filmmakers to select a photograph of personal or historical significance and "read" it for insights into the black experience.
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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.
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In 18 stimulating essays, black writers, scholars and critics reflect on individual photographs-often a family snapshot-to address questions of black identity (but not a black photographic aesthetic). If a portrait of his mother conjures up lost dreams for Edward P. Jones, a picture of her T-shirted father reminds bell hooks how her sisters differ in their view of him; and a photo of a many-hued family suggests to Christian Walker the politics of skin color. Some photos dredge up history: in an 1850s daguerreotype of a nude woman, Carla Williams finds a stimulus for questions of black sexuality; Claudine Brown finds implications for the present in a dignified 1901 mug shot. Others represent the essayists' view of politics: to Clarissa Sligh, newspaper photos from 1956 recall white demonization of integration; to Angela Davis, current popularity of her iconic afro suggests a triumph of fashion over politics. Willis, collections coordinator of the National African-American Museum Project of the Smithsonian Institution, has begun a worthy dialogue on an under-analyzed aspect of black history. Photos.
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Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherNew Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1565841077
- ISBN 13 9781565841079
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- Number of pages209
- EditorWillis Deborah
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