Posing Beauty - African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (Hardcover)

As a student in the 1970s, Deborah Willis came to the realization that images of black beauty, female and male, simply did not exist in the larger culture. Determined to redress this imbalance, Willis examined everything from vintage ladies' journals to black newspapers, and started what would become a lifelong quest. With more than two hundred arresting images, many previously unpublished, Posing Beauty recovers a world many never knew existed. Historical subjects such as Billie Holiday and Josephine Baker illuminate the past; Angela Davis and Muhammad Ali take us to the civil rights era; Denzel Washington, Lil' Kim, and Michelle Obama celebrate the present. Featuring the works of more than one hundred photographers, including Carl van Vechten, Eve Arnold, Lee Friedlander, and Carrie Mae Weems, Willis's book not only celebrates the lives of the famous but also captures the barber shop, the bodybuilding contest, and prom night. Posing Beauty challenges our most fundamental assumptions about what it means to be "beautiful."

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2009
First published:	October 2009
Authors:	Deborah Willis
Dimensions:	315 x 239 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-06696-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > Photographic portraits Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Promotions
LSN:	0-393-06696-7
Barcode:	9780393066968

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