The Black Female Body
Subtitle: A Photographic History
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781566399289
Subjects: Black studies; Photographs: portraits; Portraiture; Photo Essays; Black American Sociology; Women, Black, in art; Photography; Photography of women; USA; Photoessays & Documentaries; Subjects & Themes - Erotica; Essays; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Female nude in art; History; Photography of the nude
Description: "Searching for photographic images of black women, Deborah Willis and Carla Williams were startled to find them by the hundreds. In long-forgotten books, in art museums, in European and US archives and private collections, a hidden history of representation awaited discovery. The Black Female Body offers a stunning array of familiar and many virtually unknown photographs.

Willis and Williams show how photographs reflected Western culture's fascination with black women's bodies, reinforcing beliefs about racial differences and hierarchies. The authors also show how the powerful images created by twentieth-century photographers increasingly challenged these false beliefs."--BOOK JACKET.