Scurlock Studio and Black Washington Picturing the Promise

Name: Scurlock Studio and Black Washington Picturing the Promise
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ISBN: 9781588342621

ISBN-10: 158834262X

ISBN-13: 9781588342621

Edition: 2009

Authors: Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult, Paul Gardullo, Michelle Delaney, Jacquelyn Serwer, Lonnie G. Bunch III

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Nearly a century's worth of Scurlock photographs combine to form a searing portrait of black Washington in all its guisesits challenges and its victories, its dignity and its determination. Beginning in the early twentieth century and continuing into the 1990s, Addison Scurlock, followed by his sons, Robert and George, used their cameras to document and celebrate a community unique in the world, and a stronghold in the history and culture of the nation's capital. Through photographs of formal weddings, elegant cotillions, ballet studios, and quiet family life, the Scurlocks revealed a world in which the black middle class refused to be defined or held captive by discrimination. From its…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 1/7/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 9.10" wide x 11.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English