Black in America

By Eli Reed

Book Overview

Eli Reed has been documenting the black experience in America from the first time he began taking pictures. Now a member of Magnum, the prestigious photojournalist's cooperative, he is known for his unflinching coverage of events both large and small. Here we see tender moments between parents and children contrasted with the Los Angeles riots. The joy of a wedding follows the sorrow and anger at the funeral of Yusef Hawkins in Brooklyn. The deceptive innocence of rural life balances the tensions of the urban drug scene. And a 104-year-old woman contemplates her life a few pages away from the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. There is truth in Reed's work, as well as anger, and compassion. These images communicate to us sometimes as gently as a kiss and sometimes as cruelly as a bullet. They are part of Eli Reed's America and ours.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393039951
• ISBN13: 9780393039955
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.4" x 0.8" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Black In America

Eli Reed is a photographer with a great sense of composition and attention to detail. He documents black life in a way that is both real and artistic.