Double Exposure: Through the African American Lens

The first volume of Double Exposure, a major new series of books based on the Smithsonian NMAAHC's remarkable photography archive.

List of contents

FOREWORD by Lonnie G. Bunch III

SELF-REPRESENTATION AND HOPE: THE POWER OF THE PICTURE by Rhea L. Combs

AMERICA'S LENS by Deborah Willis

CATALOGUE

CHECKLIST

About the author

Rhea Combs is a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture and head of the museum's Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts. Combs has written several articles on gender, sexuality, and African American visual culture as well as curated shows at museums both nationally and internationally, including: ICA-London, Spelman College and the Schomburg Center for Black Culture. Combs was a former photo curator for the international advertising firm, Wieden+Kennedy.

Deborah Willis has pursued a dual professional career as an art photographer and as one of the nation's leading historians of African American culture. She is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Historian, author, curator and educator, Lonnie G. Bunch, III is the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Product details

• Authors: Rhea Combs, Smithsonian National Museum of African A, Deborah Willis
• Assisted by: National Museum of African American Hist (Photographs)
• Publisher: D Giles Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.02.2015
• EAN: 9781907804465
• ISBN: 978-1-907804-46-5
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 183 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 274 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Series: Double Exposure; Double Exposure
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous