Portraits of Community African American Photography in Texas

Portraits of Community African American Photography in Texas by Alan Govenar. Published by Texas State Historical Association, Austin, TX, 1996. 1st Edition1st Printing. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). Condition: V-Fine in Fine DJ. 272 Pgs. ISBN 0876111533. LCCN 96-12516. Using a century of photographs taken by black photographers and detailed interviews with the men and women behind the cameras. This book is an eloquent visual history of African American life. Images of African Americans have, for the most part, been absent from Texas's photographic history. Scholarly texts on photography rarely menton black Texans, and few museums have exhibited their work. This book is a groundbreaking study that presents over 200 powerful images of black Texans taken by five generations of relatively unknown black photographers. Description text copyright 2005 BooksForComfort. Item ID 10061.