Enterprising Images
Subtitle: The Goodridge Brothers, African American Photographers, 1847-1922 (Great Lakes Books)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780814324516
Subjects: Biography: general; Ethnography; Individual photographers; Social history; Photo Essays; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Economic Aspects Of Photography; Photography; Blacks In The U.S.; History; Goodridge, Glenalvin J.,; Saginaw; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; General; Individual Photographer; 19th century; Goodridge, William O.,; Michigan; 1829-1867; 1840-1922; African American photographers; Biography; Goodridge, Wallace L.,
Description: "In Enterprising Images, John Vincent Jezierski tells the story of one of America's first families of photography, documenting the history of the Goodridge studio for three-quarters of a century. The existence of more than one thousand Goodridge photographs in all formats (daguerreotypes to motion pictures) and the family's professional and personal activism enrich the portrait that emerges of this extraordinary family.

Weaving photographic and regional history with the narrative of a family whose lives paralleled the social and political happenings of the country, Jezierski provides the reader with a complex family biography for those interested in regional and African American, as well as photographic, history."--BOOK JACKET.