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100	1		_aWillis, Deborah, _d1948- _976689
245	1	0	_aReflections in Black : _ba history of Black photographers, 1840 to the present / _cDeborah Willis.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton, _cc2000.
300			_axviii, 348 p. : _bill. (some col.) ; _c31 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 338-343) and index.
505	0		_aThe First Sixty Years 1840 - 1900 -- The New Negro Image 1900 - 1930 -- 1930s and 1940s Photography -- Social and Artistic Movements 1950 - 1979 -- Photography in the 1980s and 1990s.
520			_aReflections in Black, the first comprehensive history of black photographers, is Deborah Willis's long-awaited, groundbreaking assemblage of photographs of African American life from 1840 to the present. Willis, a curator of photography at the Smithsonian Institution, has selected nearly 600 stunning photographs, with 487 in duotone and 81 in full color, of which more than 100 images have never before been seen. As this panoramic saga unfolds, we are given rich, hugely moving glimpses of African American life, from the last generation of slaves to the urban pioneers of the great migrations of the 1920s, from rare antebellum daguerreotypes of freemen to the courtly celebrants of the Harlem Renaissance, from civil rights martyrs to postmodern photographic artists of the 1990s.
520	8		_aEach photograph suggests an astonishing, often spell-binding story. Augustus Washington's mid-nineteenth-century portraits of African Americans, for example, offer a window of seeming calm in an American era known largely for its upheaval. A startling suite of J. P. Ball photographs depicts, in three images, the life, death, and burial of a black man hanged for murder in the territory of Montana. Equally arresting are the twentieth-century images: from James VanDerZee's glittering shot of a Harlem couple decked out in raccoon coats, to Ellie Lee Weems's photographs of everyday African Americans in 1930s Atlanta, to Addison Scurlock's gorgeous wedding photos, to A. P. Bedou's portrait of a rapt crowd listening to Booker T. Washington, to John W. Mosely's image of a young drum majorette marching in an Elks parade in 1940s Philadelphia, to Clarissa Sligh's fascinating peeks at African Americans submitting to the deceptively mundane chores of haircuts. These images reinforce the notion that there is no single black America, but a multitude of diversity and richness.
520	8		_aAlso in Reflections in Black are great celebrity images, including classic photographs of Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Dinah Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Sarah Vaughn, Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali, James Coltrane, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a veiled Coretta Scott King at her husband's funeral.
520	8		_aReflections in Black is, finally and most powerfully, a refutation of the gross caricature of so many photographers who have, in their depiction of African Americans, continually emphasized poverty over family, despair over hope, rage over accomplishment. Exceptionally beautiful, monumentally important, Reflections in Black is not only that rare gift book that can be given on any occasion but also a work so significant that it has the power to reconfigure the imagination. It demands to be included in every American family's library as an essential part of our country's heritage.
650		0	_aPhotography _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century. _976690
650		0	_aPhotography _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _976691
650		0	_aAfrican American photographers _xHistory _y19th century. _976692
650		0	_aAfrican American photographers _xHistory _y20th century. _976693
650		0	_aAfrican Americans in art. _976694
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905			_aDeborah Willis is curator of exhibitions at the Center for African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
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