Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present

by Deborah Willis

Book Overview

Reflections 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 images that give us rich, hugely moving glimpses of black life, from slavery to the Great Migrations, from rare antebellum portraits to 1990s middle-class...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393048802
• ISBN13: 9780393048803
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.4" x 12.4"