Nearly 600 images offer rich, moving glimpses of everyday black life, from slavery to the Great Migration to contemporary suburban life, including rare antebellum daguerrotypes, photojournalism of the civil rights era, and multimedia portraits of middle-class families. Featuring the work of undisputed masters such as James VanDerZee, Gordon Parks, and Carrie Mae Weems among dozens of others, this book is a refutation of the gross caricature of black life that many mainstream photographers have manifested by continually emphasizing poverty over family, despair over hope. Norton & Company (2002)īOOK | Reflections in Black, the first comprehensive history of black photographers, is a groundbreaking pictorial collection of African American life. Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, W.
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