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Additional authors

1. Williams, Carla, 1965-
2. Temple University Press, publisher.

Description

1. xii, 228 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm

Summary

1. "Searching for photographic images of black women, Deborah Willis and Carla Williams were startled to find them by the hundreds. In long-forgotten books, in art museums, in European and US archives and private collections, a hidden history of representation awaited discovery. The Black Female Body offers a stunning array of familiar and many virtually unknown photographs. Willis and Williams show how photographs reflected Western culture's fascination with black women's bodies, reinforcing beliefs about racial differences and hierarchies. The authors also show how the powerful images created by twentieth-century photographers increasingly challenged these false beliefs."--Jacket.

Subject

1. Photography of women
2. Photography of women > History
3. History
4. Women, Black, in art
5. Female nude in art
6. Photography of the nude > History

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Colonial Conquest -- La Vènus Noire -- Ethnography, Photography, and the Grand Tour -- The Body at Labor -- World's Fairs and Expositions -- The National Geographic Aesthetic -- The Cultural Body -- The Noble Body -- The Conscious Body -- The Artist's Model -- Bawdy Bodies -- The Lesbian Body -- The Body at Labor, Revisited -- The Body Beautiful -- The New Negro in Photography -- Perception of Beauty -- The Construction of Beauty -- Autobiography of the Body -- Conclusion: Reclaiming Bodies and Images.

Call number

1. JQG 19-918

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index.

Author

1. Willis, Deborah, 1948- author.

Title

1. The black female body : a photographic history / Deborah Willis, Carla Williams.

Publisher

1. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2002]

Copyright date

1. ©2002

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Creator/contributor characteristics

1. African Americans
2. Artists Photographers

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index.

Added author

1. Williams, Carla, 1965- author.
2. Temple University Press, publisher.

LCCN

1. 2001034719

ISBN

1. 1566399289 (cloth ; alk. paper)
2. 9781566399289 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JQG 19-918