Research Catalog

Title

Through the African American lens / Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts ; foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch III ; introduction by Rhea L. Combs ; essay by Deborah Willis.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution ; London : In association with D Giles Limited, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Combs, Rhea L.
• Willis, Deborah, 1948-
• Bunch, Lonnie G., III
• National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) issuing body.

Description

80 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 18 cm.

Summary

Double exposure is a major new series based on the remarkable photography collection held by the Center for African American Media Arts at the NMAAHC. From pre-Civil War daguerreotype portraits to 21st-century digital prints, this is a striking record of the key historical events, the cultural touchstones and the private and communal moments of African American life. In addition to fifty photographs, each volume includes an introduction by a leading historian, activist, photographer or writer, and a foreword by the NMAAHC's founding director Lonnie Bunch. Photographers include Spider Martin, Gordon Parks, Ernest C. Withers, Wayne F. Miller and Henri Cartier-Bresson. There are iconic images, such as McPherson and Oliver's 'Gordon under medical inspection' (circa 1867) and Charles Moore's photographs of the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade, as well as unfamiliar or recently discovered images, including Henry Clay Anderson's postwar pictures of everyday life in the segregated black community in Greenville, Mississippi. Published in association with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC.

Series Statement

Double exposure ; 1

Uniform Title

Double exposure (Series) (National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.))

Subject

• National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) > Photograph collections > Exhibitions
• National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
• African Americans > Pictorial works
• African Americans
• Photograph collections

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Pictorial works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Self-representation and hope : the power of the picture / Rhea L. Combs -- America's lens / Deborah Willis -- Photographs.

ISBN

• 9781907804465
• 1907804463

LCCN

9781907804465

OCLC

• 890281052
• SCSB-12580390

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library