Picturing the Promise; The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington

Langue : anglais

Edité par National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC, 2009

158834262X / 9781588342621

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224 pages. Oversized book, measuring 11-1/4 inches by 9-1/4 inches. Illustrated endpapers. Includes Foreword by Deborah Willis, Remembering Black Washington by Lonnie G. Bunch III; Portraits, with reflections by Jeffrey John Fearing, Brian Gilmore, Marya A. McQuirter, and Hilary Scurlock. Sources. Index. The book features essays from 25 contributors including Dorothy Height (Chair and President emerita of the National Council of Negro Women); Charlene Drew Jarvis, President of South-Eastern University, Washington, D.C. and formerly a member of the D.C. City Council; E. Ethelbert Miller, poet and Director of the African American Resource Center, Howard University; A. J. Verdelle, novelist and essayist; and Deborah Willis, photographer, historian, professor, and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Nearly a century's worth of Scurlock photographs combine to form a searing portrait of black Washington in all its guises-its challenges and its victories, its dignity and its determination. Beginning in the early twentieth century and continuing into the 1990s, Addison Scurlock, followed by his sons, Robert and George, used their cameras to document and celebrate a community unique in the world, and a stronghold in the history and culture of the nation's capital. Through photographs of formal weddings, elegant cotillions, ballet studios, and quiet family life, the Scurlocks revealed a world in which the black middle class refused to be defined or held captive by discrimination. From its home on the vibrant U Street corridor, the Scurlock Studio gave us indelible images of leaders and luminaries, of high society and working class, of Washingtonians at work and at play. In photograph after photograph, the Scurlocks captured an optimism and resiliency seldom seen in mainstream depictions of segregated society. Luminaries such as Duke Ellington, Ralph Bunche, Mary McLeod Bethune, Alain Locke, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Lois Mailou Jones testify to the intellectual and cultural vibrancy that was unique to Washington and an inspiration to the nation. Photographs of a Peoples Drugstore protest and Marian Anderson's Easter morning concert at the Lincoln Memorial remind us that the struggle for equality in black Washington began long before the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Offering a rich lens into our past, The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington is a powerful trigger of personal and historical memory.

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Titre
Picturing the Promise; The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington
Auteur
Gardullo, Paul (Editor); Delaney, Michelle (Editor); Serwer, Jacquelyn D. (Editor); and Bunch, Lonnie G. III (Editor)
Éditeur
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC
Année de publication
2009
État de l'article
Very good
Jaquette
Very good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
158834262X
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781588342621
Édition
Presumed First Edition, First printing.
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