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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.
Price: $14.00
Pages: 209
Publisher: The New Press
Imprint: The New Press
Publication Date:
01 May 1996
Trim Size: 9.10 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9781565841062
Format: Paperback
"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
"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
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.