Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present

by Deborah Willis

Book Overview

As a student in the 1970s, Deborah Willis came to the realization that images of black beauty, female and male, simply did not exist in the larger culture. Determined to redress this imbalance, Willis examined everything from vintage ladies' journals to black newspapers, and started what would become a lifelong quest. With more than two hundred arresting images, many previously unpublished, Posing Beauty recovers a world many never knew existed. Historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393066967
• ISBN13: 9780393066968
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.6" x 12.0"