Reflections in Black
Subtitle: a history of Black photographers, 1840-1999
By: Deborah Willis.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Photography -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African American photographers -- History -- 19th century; African American photographers -- History -- 20th century; African Americans in art
Description: "Reflections in Black, the first comprehensive history of black photographers, is Deborah Willis's assemblage of photographs of African American life from 1840 to the present. Willis, a curator of photography at the Smithsonian Institution, has selected nearly 600 photographs, with 487 in duotone and 81 in full color, of which more than 100 images have never before been seen.

We are given rich, moving glimpses of African American life, from the last generation of slaves to the urban pioneers of the great migrations of the 1920s, from rare antebellum daguerreotypes of freemen to the courtly celebrants of the Harlem Renaissance, from civil rights martyrs to postmodern photographic artists of the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: 153,021

Includes bibliographical references and index.