The black female body : a photographic history
Deborah Willis (Author), Carla Williams (Author), Temple University Press (Publisher)
"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
History
xii, 228 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
9781566399289, 1566399289
47045028
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Colonial Conquest 1. La Venus Noire 2. Ethnography, Photography, and the Grand Tour 3. The Body at Labor 4. World's Fairs and Expositions 5. The National Geographic Aesthetic Part II: The Cultural Body 6. The Noble Body 7. The Conscious Body 8. The Artist's Model 9. Bawdy Bodies 10. The Lesbian Body 11. The Body at Labor, Revisited Part III: The Body Beautiful 12. The New Negro in Photography 13. Perception of Beauty 14. The Construction of Beauty 15. Autobiography of the Body Conclusion: Reclaiming Bodies and Images Notes References Index Color plates