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Reflections in Black : a history of Black photographers, 1840 to the present / Deborah Willis.

Van Pelt Library TR23 .W55 2025
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Willis, Deborah, 1948- author.
Contributor:
Kelley, Robin D. G., writer of foreword.
Brooks, Kalia, writer of supplementary textual content.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African American photographers--History--19th century.
African American photographers.
African American photographers--History--20th century.
Photographers, Black--History--19th century.
Photographers, Black.
Photographers, Black--History--20th century.
Photography--United States--History--19th century.
Photography.
Photography--United States--History--20th century.
African Americans in art.
African Americans--Pictorial works.
African Americans.
Photography--History.
United States.
Genre:
photobooks.
Pictorial works.
Photobooks.
Illustrated works.
Physical Description:
xxii, 373 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm
Edition:
Twenty-fifth anniversary edition: a reframing.
Other Title:
History of Black photographers, 1840 to the present
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2025]
Biography/History:
Deborah Willis--MacArthur and Guggenheim fellow--is a celebrated author, photographer, and NYU professor who lives in New York City.
Summary:
"Originally published in 2000, Reflections in Black was the first single-volume work to collect the images of leading African American photographers--from the daguerreotype to the digital age. Through its sheer power and inherent beauty, Deborah Willis's groundbreaking assemblage of photographs of African American life from 1840 to the present triumphantly celebrated family, endurance, and spirituality over the last two centuries as it upended stereotypes and rewrote American history. Aware that so much has changed since 2000, Willis--a world-renowned photographer, curator, and author--has now created a breathtaking twenty-fifth anniversary edition, juxtaposing hundreds of images that appeared in the original edition with 130 new ones."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Foreword to the 2025 edition / Robin D. G. Kelley
Foreword to the 2000 edition / Robin D. G. Kelley
Part I. The first sixty years, 1840-1900
Part II. The new Negro image, 1900-1930
Part III. 1930s and 1940s photography
Part IV. Social and artistic movements, 1950s-1960s
Part V. Photography in the 1970s-1990s
Part VI. New narratives, 2000-2022
Coda. The new millenium / Kalia Brooks.
Notes:
Previous edition: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
ebook version :
ISBN:
9781324091790
1324091797
OCLC:
1545082239
Publisher Number:
CIPO000291931

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