Winner of the International Center for Photography's 1995 Award for Writing on Photography, Picturing Us brings together a diverse group of African American writers, scholars, and filmmakers in the first concerted effort to analyze and respond to the photographic images of blacks through history. The book's contributors-including bell hooks, E. Ethelbert Miller, Angela Davis, and others-examine the personal and public issues embedded in family portraits and news photographs, movie stills and mug shots.
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Winner of the International Center for Photography's 1995 Award for Writing on Photography, Picturing Us brings together a diverse group of African American writers, scholars, and filmmakers in the first concerted effort to analyze and respond to the photographic images of blacks through history. The book's contributors-including bell hooks, E. Ethelbert Miller, Angela Davis, and others-examine the personal and public issues embedded in family portraits and news photographs, movie stills and mug shots.
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