Fr. 125.00

Reflections in Black - A History of Black Photographers: 1840 to the Present

English · Hardback

Will be released 04.11.2025

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Now offering over 500 images from 1840 to the present, this breathtaking work provides rich, moving glimpses of everyday Black life, from slavery to the Great Migration to suburban life, including rare antebellum daguerreotypes, photojournalism of the civil rights era and multimedia portraits of middle-class families, along with a contemporary section depicting images of both joy and mourning, beauty and protest that have indelibly changed the world we know. Featuring the works of undisputed masters such as James VanDerZee, Gordon Parks and Carrie Mae Weems, this expanded edition now includes works from great twenty-first-century artists, including LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lorna Simpson and Phylicia Ghee. Reflections in Blackis work so significant that it has the power to reconfigure our conception of American history.


About the author

Deborah Willis—MacArthur and Guggenheim fellow—is a celebrated author, photographer, and NYU professor who lives in New York City.Robin D. G. Kelley wrote the foreword to both editions of Reflections in Black. He is the author of several books, including the prize-winning Thelonious Monk.Kalia Brooks, who wrote the coda to the 2025 edition of Reflections in Black, is the director of programs and exhibitions at NXTHVN.

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