Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History - Couverture souple

Finley, Cheryl; Glasco, Laurence A.; Trotter Jr., Joe William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822961741 ISBN 13 : 9780822961741

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011

Synopsis

Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of Art

With an introduction by Deborah Willis

The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998). But it’s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, friendship, and family. In jazz clubs, Little League games, beauty contests, church functions, boxing matches, political events, protest marches, and everyday scenes, Teenie Harris captured the essence of African American life in Pittsburgh.

Harris’s career began as America emerged from the Great Depression and ended after the civil rights movement. As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s most influential black newspapers, Teenie hit the streets to record historic events and the people who lived them. The archive of Harris’s photography, in the permanent collection of Carnegie Museum of Art, represents one of the most important documentations of twentieth-century African Americans and their communities. Today, even as Teenie Harris’s photography stands alongside that of Harlem’s famed James VanDerZee, his work in Pittsburgh’s Hill District surpasses that of all other photographers in its breadth and rich portrayal of black urban America.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Cheryl Finley (Author)
Cheryl Finley is assistant professor of art history at Cornell University. She is coauthor of Imaging African Art: Documentation and Transformation.

Laurence A. Glasco (Author)
Laurence A. Glasco is professor emeritus of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author or coauthor of five books, including August Wilson: Pittsburgh Places in His Life and Plays (with Christopher Rawson).

Joe William Trotter Jr. (Author)
Joe William Trotter Jr. is the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America; Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement: A Century of Social Service and Activism; and African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822961741
• ISBN 13: 9780822961741
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible