Posing Beauty African American Images from the 1890s to the Present

Name: Posing Beauty African American Images from the 1890s to the Present
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ISBN: 9780393066968

ISBN-10: 0393066967

ISBN-13: 9780393066968

Edition: 2009

Authors: Deborah Willis, D. Willis, Willis

List price: $49.95

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As a student in the 1970s, Deborah Willis came to the realization that images of black beauty, female and male, simply did not exist in the larger culture. Determined to redress this imbalance, Willis examined everything from vintage ladiesâ€™ journals to black newspapers, and started what would become a lifelong quest. With more than two hundred arresting images, many previously unpublished, Posing Beauty recovers a world many never knew existed. Historical subjects such as Billie Holiday and Josephine Baker illuminate the past; Angela Davis and Muhammad Ali take us to the civil rights era; Denzel Washington, Lilâ€™ Kim, and Michelle Obama celebrate the present. Featuring the works of more…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/5/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 9.40" wide x 12.40" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 4.576
Language: English

She has taught photography & the history of photography at New York University, City University of New York & the Brooklyn Museum. She lives in Washington, D. C..