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Item Details
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POSING BEAUTY
AFRICAN AMERICAN IMAGES FROM THE 1890S TO THE PRESENT |
| By: |
Deborah Willis |
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Paperback |
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0393340597 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393340594 |
| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
19 December, 2011 |
| Description: |
A monumental contribution to contemporary American culture. . . . Willis has forever changed the conversation about beauty in American life. The New York Times |
| Synopsis: |
As a student in the 1970s, Deborah Willis found that images of black beauty did not exist in the larger culture. Determined to redress this imbalance, Willis started a lifelong quest that has become Posing Beauty. Subjects such as Billie Holiday and Josephine Baker illuminate the past; Angela Davis and Muhammad Ali take us to the civil rights era; Denzel Washington, Lil' Kim and Michelle Obama represent the present. However, Willis does not only celebrate the famous but also recovers a world many never knew existed. Featuring the work of more than one hundred photographers, Posing Beauty challenges our assumptions about what it means to be "beautiful". |
| Illustrations: |
242 duotone photographs; 40 pages of five-colour photographs |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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