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Publisher
University of Minnesota
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A Picture Gallery of the Soul presents the work of more than one hundred Black American artists whose practice incorporates the photographic medium. Organized by the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, this group exhibition samples a range of photographic expressions produced over three centuries, from traditional photography to mixed media and conceptual art. From the daguerreotypes made by Jules Lion in New Orleans in 1840...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Accalimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author of fiction and nonfiction, has participated in, been witness to and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries; Photographer for Vogue, Glamour and Life magazines and the author of the book, Born Black.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly probes the recesses of American history by discovering images that have been suppressed, forgotten and lost. Bringing to light the hidden and unknown photos shot by both professional and vernacular African American photographers, the film opens a window into lives,...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Only Ernest Withers, a key figure in the civil rights movement, could have delivered such iconic photographs-and the kind of information the FBI wanted . . . Renowned photographer Ernest Withers captured some of the most stunning moments of the civil rights era-from the age-defining snapshot of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., riding one of the first integrated buses in Montegomery, to the haunting photo of Emmett Till's great-uncle pointing an accusing...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
James Van Der Zee was just a young boy when he saved enough money to buy his first camera. He took photos of his family, classmates, and anyone who would sit still for a portrait. By the fifth grade, James was the school photographer and unofficial town photographer. Eventually he outgrew his small town and moved to the exciting, fast-paced world of New York City. After being told by his boss that no one would want his or her photo taken -by a black...
8) Love Jones
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Set in Chicago, a beautiful photographer and a sweet-talking poet get together and discover romance.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured--and influenced--a critical moment in American history. Who was Ernest Withers? Most Americans may not know the name, but they do know his photographs. Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and '60s: Martin Luther King, Jr., riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till's uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at one of...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by Deborah Willis's book, Reflections in black, Through a lens darkly casts a broad net that begins with filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris's family album. It considers the difference between black photographers who use the camera to define themselves, their people, and their culture and some white photographers who, historically, have demeaned African-Americans through racist imagery. The film embraces both historical material (African-Americans...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his life changed forever. He taught himself how to take pictures and before long, people noticed.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This visually stunning portrait of Black photographer Roy DeCarava, a child of the Harlem Renaissance and an artistic collaborator of Langston Hughes, takes readers through 1940s Harlem where beauty is everywhere as he immortalizes and documents the lives of ordinary Black people. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations."--
Author
Publisher
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems met in New York in the late 1970s, and over the next 45 years, these close friends and colleagues have each produced bodies of work around shared interests and concerns. This publication brings together over 140 photographs and video art from the 1970s through the 2010s. Since first meeting at the Studio Museum in Harlem five decades ago, Bey and Weems have maintained mutual engagement while exploring and addressing...
Author
Publisher
Aperture
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the political slogan "Black Is Beautiful." This monograph--the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite's remarkable career--tells the story of a key, but under-recognized, figure of the second Harlem Renaissance. Inspired by the writings of activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey, Brathwaite, along with his older brother, Elombe Brath, founded the African...
Author
Publisher
CityFiles Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement. Withers worked primarily a local photographer, as a freelancer...
Author
Publisher
New Orleans Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From photography's beginnings in the United States, Black studio photographers operated on the developing edge of popular media to produce affirming portraits for their clients, as well as a wide range of photographic work rooted in their communities. Called to the Camera offers a comprehensive history of this work, from the nineteenth-century daguerreotypes of James Presley Ball to the height of Black studios in the mid-twentieth century, and considers...
18) Sacred Nile
Author
Publisher
March Forth Imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sacred Nile is the story of our collective spiritual imagination and practice. Chester Higgins celebrates the agency of people of African descent and their influence on the foundation of Western religion. His images illustrate how faith migrated up and down the River Nile from Ethiopia to Egypt leaving vestiges of ancient practice in today’s worship. This visual portrayal of faith reexamines our spiritual beginnings. --from Amazon.
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