Through the African American lens
By: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts ; foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch III
Series: Double exposure -- 1; Double exposure (Series) (National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.))
Publisher: National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution; In association with D Giles Limited
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781907804465
Subjects: Photograph collections; African Americans; Exhibitions; Pictorial works; National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
Other titles: Double exposure through the African American lens
Description: Double exposure is a major new series based on the remarkable photography collection held by the Center for African American Media Arts at the NMAAHC. From pre-Civil War daguerreotype portraits to 21st-century digital prints, this is a striking record of the key historical events, the cultural touchstones and the private and communal moments of African American life. In addition to fifty photographs, each volume includes an introduction by a leading historian, activist, photographer or writer, and a foreword by the NMAAHC's founding director Lonnie Bunch. Photographers include Spider Martin, Gordon Parks, Ernest C. Withers, Wayne F. Miller and Henri Cartier- Bresson. There are iconic images, such as McPherson and Oliver's 'Gordon under medical inspection' (circa 1867) and Charles Moore's photographs of the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade, as well as unfamiliar or recently discovered images, including Henry Clay Anderson's postwar pictures of everyday life in the segregated black community in Greenville, Mississippi. Published in association with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC.
Notes: Includes bibliographical refererences and index.