Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943 Contributor(s): Stange, Maren (Editor), International Center of Photography (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 1565846184 ISBN-13: 9781565846180 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2003 Annotation: This unprecedented coverage of a black urban community--the only significant collection of photos of black Chicago during this pivotal era--has largely gone unpublished. Now, in over 100 full-page photos, this stunning tribute captures the vitality of a city whose burgeoning black population produced a vibrant and sophisticated culture. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Portraits & Selfies - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries |
Dewey: 977.311 |
LCCN: 2002071894 |
Physical Information: 0.96" H x 10.3" W x 8.68" (2.69 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Illinois - Locality - Chicago, Illinois |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In the 1940s, the federal government sent a group of gifted photographers across the United States to record and publicize conditions in cities, towns, and rural areas that were the destination of an unprecedented migration. Two of these photographers, Russell Lee and Edwin Rosskam, spent time on Chicago's South Side, eventually producing over a thousand documentary images of Bronzeville's life. This remarkable coverage of a black urban community--the only significant collection of photographs of black Chicago during this pivotal era--has largely gone unpublished until now. In over 100 handsome full-page black-and-white photographs of bustling city streets and sidewalks, prosperous middle-class businesses, thriving cabarets, as well as dirt-poor migrants from the deep South, this stunning tribute captures the vitality of a city whose burgeoning black population produced a vibrant and sophisticated culture now familiar worldwide. With original essays on the migration and the photography project, and contemporary commentary by Richard Wright and others, Bronzeville is a unique and exceptionally beautiful evocation of one of the defining moments in American cultural history. |