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Deborah Willis, editor. The New Press: New York, 1994.
Winner of Infinity Award, International Center for Photography, New York 1994
From the Publisher:
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.
Contents:
Introduction: Picturing Us Deborah WillisPart I: Visual Memories
"When You Meet Estella Smart, You Been Met!" Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
"A Sunday Portrait" Edward P. Jones
"In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life" bell hooks
"In My Father's House There Were No Images" E. Ethelbert Miller
Part II: Reflecting Color
"Gazing Colored: A Family Album" Christian Walker
"Grandmother's Face and the Legacy of Pomegranate Hall" Adele Logan Alexander
"My Grandmother Died Last Night" Lisé Hamilton
Part III: Reinterpreting Visual Memories
"The Plaintiff Speaks" Clarissa Sligh
"Finding a Space for Myself in My Film about Color Consciousness" Kathe Sandler
"Affirmative Action and the White Backlash: Notes from a Child of Apartheid" Luke Charles Harris
Part IV: Personal and Cultural Images in a Critical Context
"The Erotic Image is Naked and Dark" Carla Williams
"Mug Shot: Suspicious Person" Claudine K. Brown
"The Continuing Drama of African American Images in American Cinema" St. Clair Bourne
"How Come Nobody Told Me about the Lynching?" Jacquie Jones
"Hard Core Poverty" Paul A. Rogers
"Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia" Angela Y. Davis
"Making Noises: Marcus Garvey Dada, August 1922" Robert A. Hill
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