Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity
- ISBN-10
- 0822350858
- ISBN-13
- 9780822350859
- Category
- Photography
- Pages
- 387
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-06-19
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Authors
- Shawn Michelle Smith, Maurice O. Wallace
Description
Featuring more than seventy images, Pictures and Progress brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photographers, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking.
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