"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 from
various disciplines consider figures including Frederick Douglass,
Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W. E. B.
Du Bois as important and innovative theorists and practitioners of
photography. In addition, brief interpretive essays, or
"snapshots," highlight and analyze the work of four early African
American photographers. Featuring more than seventy images,
"Pictures and Progress" brings to light the wide-ranging practices
of early African American photography, as well as the effects of
photography on racialized thinking.
"Contributors." Michael A. Chaney, Cheryl Finley, P. Gabrielle
Foreman, Ginger Hill, Leigh Raiford, Augusta Rohrbach, Ray
Sapirstein, Suzanne N. Schneider, Shawn Michelle Smith, Laura
Wexler, Maurice O. Wallace
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