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Called to the camera : Black American studio photographers

Title

Called to the camera : Black American studio photographers / Brian Piper with John Edwin Mason, Carla Williams, and Russell Lord ; foreword by Susan Taylor.

Publication

[New Orleans] : New Orleans Museum of Art, [2023]
New Haven : Yale University Press
©2023

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Description

226 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

From photography's beginnings in the United States, Black studio photographers operated on the developing edge of popular media to produce affirming portraits for their clients, as well as a wide range of photographic work rooted in their communities. Called to the Camera offers a comprehensive history of this work, from the nineteenth-century daguerreotypes of James Presley Ball to the height of Black studios in the mid-twentieth century, and considers contemporary photographers responding to Black studio traditions today. In addition to showcasing famous photographers such as Ball, James Van Der Zee, and Addison Scurlock, this volume brings attention to dozens of other artists across the country, including Florestine Perrault Collins, Austin Hansen, and Henry Clay Anderson. The book features more than one hundred extraordinary vintage photographs, many of them unique objects and some, like those by the Hooks Brothers Studio, published here for the first time. Highlighting Black subjects on both sides of the camera, Called to the Camera presents a broader and more inclusive history of photography.

Alternative Title

Black American studio photographers

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Exhibition catalogs.
Photobooks.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-221).

Exhibitions (note)

Published in the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, held at New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Sept. 15 2022-January 8, 2023.

Contents

Director's foreword / Susan M. Taylor -- Introduction / Russell Lord -- "Where there's beauty we take it, and where there's none we can make it:" the work of Black American photography studios / Brian Piper -- Nobody's "faithful servant:" Henry Martin represents himself / John Edwin Mason -- The art of seeing as being seen / Carla Williams.

Call Number

Sc+ F 23-229

ISBN

9780300267389
030026738X

LCCN

2022943021

OCLC

1379251049

Title

Called to the camera : Black American studio photographers / Brian Piper with John Edwin Mason, Carla Williams, and Russell Lord ; foreword by Susan Taylor.

Publisher

[New Orleans] : New Orleans Museum of Art, [2023]

Distributor

New Haven : Yale University Press

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-221).

Exhibitions

Published in the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, held at New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Sept. 15 2022-January 8, 2023.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Added Author

Piper, Brian (Art museum curator), author.

Mason, John Edwin, author.

Williams, Carla, 1965- author.

Lord, Russell, author.

Taylor, Susan M., writer of foreword.

New Orleans Museum of Art, host institution, publisher.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 23-229

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