Picturing Us

by Willis, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9781565841062
• ISBN10: 1565841069
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

Winner of the International Center for Photography's 1995 Award for Writing on Photography, Picturing Us brings together a diverse group of African American writers, scholars, and filmmakers in the first concerted effort to analyze and respond to the photographic images of blacks through history. The book's contributors--including bell hooks, E. Ethelbert Miller, Angela Davis, and others--examine the personal and public issues embedded in family portraits and news photographs, movie stills and mug shots.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Picturing Us	p. 3
When You Meet Estella Smart, You Been Met!	p. 29
A Sunday Portrait	p. 35
In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life	p. 43
In My Father's House There Were No Images	p. 55
Gazing Colored: A Family Album	p. 65
Grandmother's Face and the Legacy of Pomegranate Hall	p. 73
My Grandmother Died Last Night	p. 81
The Plaintiff Speaks	p. 89
Finding a Space for Myself in My Film about Color Consciousness	p. 105
Affirmative Action and the White Backlash: Notes from a Child of Apartheid	p. 113
The Erotic Image Is Naked and Dark	p. 129
Mug Shot: Suspicious Person	p. 137
The Continuing Drama of African American Images in American Cinema	p. 145
How Come Nobody Told Me about the Lynching?	p. 153
Hard Core Poverty	p. 159
Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia	p. 171
Making Noise: Marcus Garvey Dada, August 1922	p. 181
About the Contributors	p. 207
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