Everyday beauty
Subtitle: photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
By: National Museum of African American History and Culture, Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts ; forward [by] Lonnie G. Bunch III ; [essay by] Robin Givhan
Contributors: Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts; Smithsonian Institution; D. Giles Limited
Series: Double exposure; Double exposure (Series) (National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.))
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781911282211
Subjects: Catalogs; National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.); Photography; African Americans in art; Artistic Photography; History
Other titles: Double exposure :
Description: This latest volume in the critically-acclaimed Double Exposure series presents a range of photographic styles by celebrated photographers as well as snapshots by unknown amateurs. It also features photos by, amongst many others, Wayne F. Miller, Arthur Rothstein, Charles "Teenie" Harris, Al Pereira, Frank . Stewart, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and Dawoud Bey, who has just been named as MacArthur Foundation 2017 ̀Genius' Grant Winner. There are remarkable images by African American photographer John Johnson- whose plate glass negatives offer a rare glimpse into the everyday life of African Americans in Lincoln, Nebraska before World War I-and studio portraits by the Calvert Brothers of Nashville, Tennessee, and William J. Kuebler, Jr. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from the early twentieth century. Personal reflections by photographers Builder Levy and Zun Lee, and contributions from collector Adreinne Waheed and curator Rhea L. Combs are new features in this series.
Notes: At head of title: Double exposure.

"National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., in association with D Giles Limited, London."

Writers of forward and essay from page [5].

Includes index.