Jamaica in Black and White: Photography in Jamaica C.1845-c.1920: the David Boxer Collection
David Boxer, the Director Emeritus and veteran Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Jamaica, has, during the past thirty-five years, curated over a hundred exhibitions charting important aspects of Jamaican and Caribbean art history.Dr Boxer has always taken a keen interest in the history and development of photography. About twenty years ago he embarked on a thorough investigation of the use of photographic media in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Jamaica and began to put together a personal collection which forms the basis for this book. His principal essay in this volume, The Photographers: the Duperlys and their Contemporaries , is based on the pioneering study which he undertook for the catalogue of an exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of Adolphe Duperly, Jamaica s first photographer, which he curated for the National Gallery of Jamaica in 2001.Dr Boxer is now engaged in assembling a collection of twentieth-century Jamaican photography.Edward Lucie-Smith is an internationally renowned art critic and historian with more than a hundred books to his name. He has acted as curator for many exhibitions and lectured extensively all over the world.