Picturing us : African American identity in photography / edited by Deborah Willis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Willis, Deborah, 1948- editor.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Willis, Deborah, 1948-.

Willis, Deborah.

African American women authors.

African American photographers.

Women photographers--United States.

Women photographers.

Authors, American.

United States.

African American photographers--Exhibitions.

Photographers--United States.

Photographers.

Authors, American--20th century.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Willis-Thomas, Deborah, 1948- (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 209 pages, 1 unnumbered page: portraits, photographs ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press, 1994.

Contents:

Part 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. Grazing 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 T. 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 Noise: Marcus Garvey, Dada, August 1922 / Robert A. Hall.

Notes:

"Production Management by Kim Waymer."

"Deborah Willis, the country's foremost expert on African American photography, asked seventeen writers, critics, and film makers to select a photograph of personal or historical significance and to 'read' it for insights into the black experience."--Dust jacket.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscribed "Vertamae Your story leads us all to this. Thanks for contributing Love Deb Willis 2/16/95" on title page.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscribed "14 March 95 For Alane, Looking forward to making a book with you. Enjoy page 29-- from Estella Smart's grandaughter [sic] Vertamae"

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

1565841077 :

OCLC:

30780407