Title & Author:

Visual journal : Harlem and D.C. in the thirties and forties / edited by Deborah Willis and Jane Lusaka.

Publication:

Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
©1996

Description:

xiii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Photojournalism in Harlem : Morgan and Marvin Smith and the construction of power, 1934-1943 / Melissa Rachleff -- Seeking a cultural equality : the visual record of Robert H. McNeill / Jane Lusaka -- Robert H. McNeill and the profusion of Virginia experience / Nicholas Natanson -- The Scurlock Studio / Jane Freundel Levey -- Flashback : Gordon Parks and the image of the capital city / Deborah Willis.
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Summary:

Visual Journal celebrates the work of five African American photographers who documented segregated black communities in Washington, D.C., rural Virginia, and New York City in the 1930s and 1940s. These photographers - Robert H. McNeill, Gordon Parks, Robert S. Scurlock, Morgan and Marvin Smith - produced extraordinary images that recover today the fullness of African American life in the years when it remained little noticed by the larger society. The work presented in Visual Journal, executed between 1929 and 1949, captures the rhythms of daily commerce and societybaptisms, picnics, business meetings, cotillions, and sports events. Ranging from dynamic shots of street scenes to stylized studio portraiture, the photographs portray how the Depression, the New Deal, Jim Crow laws, the Great Migration, and the Second World War affected black families and community relationships. As if they were contemporary griots retelling their communities' stories, these photographers recorded African Americans engaging in acts of devotion and conflict, rejoicing in efforts to "uplift the race," and maintaining dignity in a so-called separate but equal society. Visual Journal not only pays tribute to the photographers' versatility and talent but also offers valuable insight into the creative community life that flourished despite the strictures of segregation.

ISBN:

1560986913
9781560986911

Subject:

Documentary photography New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Documentary photography Washington (D.C.) History 20th century.
African Americans New York (State) New York History 20th century Pictorial works.
African Americans Washington (D.C.) History 20th century Pictorial works.
Photographers New York (State) New York 20th century Biography.
African American photographers New York (State) New York 20th century Biography.
Photographie documentaire New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle.
Photographie documentaire Washington (D.C.) Histoire 20e siècle.
Noirs américains New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Noirs américains Washington (D.C.) Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographes New York (État) New York 20e siècle Biographies.
Photographes noirs américains New York (État) New York 20e siècle Biographies.
Photographers
African American photographers
African Americans
Documentary photography
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) History 20th century Pictorial works.
Washington (D.C.) History 20th century Pictorial works.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Washington (D.C.) Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
New York (State) New York
New York (State) New York Harlem
Washington (D.C.)

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Biographies
Illustrated works
History
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Willis, Deborah, 1948- editor.
Lusaka, Jane, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191259
Call No.: ID TR820.5.V57; ID:97-B1834
Status: Available