Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

by Maurice O. Wallace

Book Overview

Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of empowerment. In this collection of essays, scholars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350858
• ISBN13: 9780822350859
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"