Picturing Black History
Photographs and Stories that Changed the World
Will be published approx. on 19. December 2024
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-4197-6955-9 (ISBN)
Description
** Nominated for a NAACP Image Award **
A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project.
"Stunning . . . Provides fresh perspective on historical photographs and snapshots of Black life." -NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"An astonishing work." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Picturing Black History uncovers untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally significant moments. This beautiful collectible volume makes a thoughtful gift and is full of rousing, vibrant essays paired with rarely seen photographs that expand our understanding of Black history.
The book is a collaborative effort between Getty Images, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, and the History departments at The Ohio State and Miami Universities. It informs, educates, and inspires our current moment by exploring the past, blending the breadth and depth of Getty Images's archives with the renowned expertise of Origins contributors and The Ohio State's and Miami's History departments, including Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas Breyfogle, and Steve Conn.
Created by a growing collective of professional historians, art historians, Black Studies scholars, and photographers and showcasing Getty Images's unmatched collection of photographs, Picturing Black History embraces the power of visual storytelling to relay little-known stories of oppression and resistance, perseverance and resilience, freedom, dreams, imagination, and joy within the United States and around the world.
In collecting these new photographic essays, this book furthers an ongoing dialogue on the significance of Black history and Black life, sharing new perspectives on the current status of prejudice and discrimination bias with a wider audience. Picturing Black History uses the latest academic learning and scholarship to recontextualize and dispel prejudices, while uncovering, digitizing, and preserving new archival materials to amplify a more inclusive visual landscape.
"Picturing Black History offers a trove of both famous and unseen photos with brief, poignant accompanying essays to show not only the centrality of Black people to American history but also how African Americans used the photographer's lens to tell their own stories. The editors, authors, and Getty images have created a beautiful book that stands on its own as a work of art, a veritable museum in print." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project.
"Stunning . . . Provides fresh perspective on historical photographs and snapshots of Black life." -NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"An astonishing work." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Picturing Black History uncovers untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally significant moments. This beautiful collectible volume makes a thoughtful gift and is full of rousing, vibrant essays paired with rarely seen photographs that expand our understanding of Black history.
The book is a collaborative effort between Getty Images, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, and the History departments at The Ohio State and Miami Universities. It informs, educates, and inspires our current moment by exploring the past, blending the breadth and depth of Getty Images's archives with the renowned expertise of Origins contributors and The Ohio State's and Miami's History departments, including Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas Breyfogle, and Steve Conn.
Created by a growing collective of professional historians, art historians, Black Studies scholars, and photographers and showcasing Getty Images's unmatched collection of photographs, Picturing Black History embraces the power of visual storytelling to relay little-known stories of oppression and resistance, perseverance and resilience, freedom, dreams, imagination, and joy within the United States and around the world.
In collecting these new photographic essays, this book furthers an ongoing dialogue on the significance of Black history and Black life, sharing new perspectives on the current status of prejudice and discrimination bias with a wider audience. Picturing Black History uses the latest academic learning and scholarship to recontextualize and dispel prejudices, while uncovering, digitizing, and preserving new archival materials to amplify a more inclusive visual landscape.
"Picturing Black History offers a trove of both famous and unseen photos with brief, poignant accompanying essays to show not only the centrality of Black people to American history but also how African Americans used the photographer's lens to tell their own stories. The editors, authors, and Getty images have created a beautiful book that stands on its own as a work of art, a veritable museum in print." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
Reviews / Votes
"This stunning array of images curated from the Getty archive provides fresh perspective on historical photographs and snapshots of Black life captured across the country. [ . . . ] Painstakingly curated and highly moving." * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * "In this fascinating and important collection of previously unseen or underappreciated photographs, a team of art historians and archivists have created the definitive photographic account of the Civil Rights Movement . . . . a necessary addition for library and personal bookshelves alike." * BOOKPAGE, Starred Review * "An astonishing work, Picturing Black History offers a trove of both famous and unseen photos with brief, poignant accompanying essays to show not only the centrality of Black people to American history but also how African Americans used the photographer's lens to tell their own stories. The editors, authors, and Getty images have created a beautiful book that stands on its own as a work of art, a veritable museum in print." * HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
150 black-and-white and color photographs
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 212 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
1306 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4197-6955-9 (9781419769559)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Daniela Edmeier | Damarius Johnson | Nicholas B. Breyfogle
Picturing Black History
Photographs and Stories that Changed the World
E-Book
11/2024
ABRAMS Books
€30.49
Available for download
Persons
Daniela Edmeier is a Managing Editor of Picturing Black History. She is a PhD Candidate in History at The Ohio State University, where she studies immigration, race and ethnicity, and settler colonialism in French Algeria. Damarius Johnson is a PhD Student at The Ohio State University. He is a public historian whose research examines intersecting traditions of Black museum-building in the United States and West Africa. Nicholas B. Breyfogle is a co-editor of the online magazines Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Picturing Black History and Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University and Director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching. Steven Conn is a co-editor of the online magazines Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Picturing Black History and W. E. Smith Professor of History, Miami University.