As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the pre-eminent black newsweeklies in America, Charles H. Teenie Harris traveled the alleys, workplaces, nightclubs, and neighborhoods of his native Pittsburgh with a Speed Graphic camera in hand. His work, collected in this book for the first time, offers a rare look into the African-American community from the 1930s to the 1970s, during and after the civil rights movement. Whether backstage with Dizzy Gillespie and Lena Horne, in the dugout with Josh Gibson and Satchel ...
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As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the pre-eminent black newsweeklies in America, Charles H. Teenie Harris traveled the alleys, workplaces, nightclubs, and neighborhoods of his native Pittsburgh with a Speed Graphic camera in hand. His work, collected in this book for the first time, offers a rare look into the African-American community from the 1930s to the 1970s, during and after the civil rights movement. Whether backstage with Dizzy Gillespie and Lena Horne, in the dugout with Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige, or on the streets of Pittsburgh's Hill District, Harris skillfully and enthusiastically documented his beloved community. His images are an important visual history of places we have seldom seen, illustrating the 20th-century black experience in a major American city. Harris's archive contains over 80,000 images in all (the entire Harris archive was recently bought by the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and they hope to have an exhibition of his work in the future). Stanley Crouch's essay energetically ties together the disparate issues of African- American history, photography, jazz, baseball, and the history of Pittsburgh that make up Harris's work, whi
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Very good + in very good + jacket. Oblong quarto (10.5"x10'), red paper covered boards with pictorial dust jacket, heavily illustrated in b&w. Shelfwear and rubbing to bottom edges of book, corners lightly bumped, pages clean and unmarked, binding tight. DJ has minor shelfwear including to top edge of front cover, spine ends bumped and spine shows general wear.
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Very good + in near fine jacket. Oblong quarto, boards in dust jacket, illustrated, clean unmarked text, very good+ copy in near fine dust jacket, previous owner's name-stamp and name-sticker to both pastedowns, light wear to the tips of the covers, minor edgewear to the dust jacket. Uncommon.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Printed paper covered boards in dust jacket, oblong quarto [10.5" x 10"], illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of shelfwear to edges of boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild edgewear, now in archival mylar wrap.
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($35.00 price intact). Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2002. Quarto. Red boards stamped in black and white with gray endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. A fine copy of this collection of 135 duotone photographs by Chales “Teenie” Harris. 166 pages. ISBN: 0810932725. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Fine in Very good jacket. Jacket spine is sunned, but text is legible. Jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Book itself is in like new condition. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.
