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Covenant : scenes from an African American church / photographs by Tyagan Miller ; essay by Yusef Komunyakaa.

Title
Covenant : scenes from an African American church / photographs by Tyagan Miller ; essay by Yusef Komunyakaa.
Author
Miller, Tyagan.
Publication
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.

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Komunyakaa, Yusef
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill.; 28 x 30 cm.
Summary
Culled from more than 4,000 images taken by Miller over a four-year period, the 93 photographs record the salient aspects of life in an African American church-services, baptisms, weddings, funerals, social events, and portraits of the congregants. A stunning collection of photographs celebrating the community and spirit of African American life.
Subject
  • Miller, Tyagan
  • Friendship Missionary Baptist Church (Indanapolis, Ind.)
  • Portrait photography
  • African American Baptists > Portraits
  • African American churches > Indianapolis > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
  • Pictorial works
  • Portraits
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Covenant, sorrow songs, and flying away / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Photographs & interviews -- List of plates -- Photographer's note -- About the photographer -- About the writer.
ISBN
  • 0253348358 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780253348357 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2006019756
OCLC
  • 70174855
  • SCSB-10620910
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library