Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity
- Authors: Maurice O. Wallace, Shawn Michelle Smith
- Subjects: Arts & Photography, Photography
- Tags: African American Men, African American Studies, Associate Professor, Visual Culture
- Price: $85.56
- Hardcover: 392 pages
- Publisher: Duke University Press Books (July 6, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 082235067X
- ISBN-13: 978-0822350675
Review
“Pictures and Progress offers a new understanding of visual representations of black Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through its compelling essays, this work reframes the archive of images of death, beauty, and suffering of black subjects in photography.”—Deborah Willis, New York UniversityAbout the Author
Maurice O. Wallace is Associate Professor of English and African & African American Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideology in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775–1995, also published by Duke University Press.Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture (Duke University Press) and American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture, and the coauthor of Lynching Photographs.Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity Book Reviews
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