Seeing black: black photography in New Orleans 1840 & beyond

Abstract

"[This book] features over two hundred images by nearly ninety Black photographers whose work embraces the camera's visual power--discerning, beholding, and documenting people, places, events, collective memories, encounters, and ever-present moments of blackness. From the invisible to the obvious, the mundane to the spectacular, the overlooked to the seen, the erased to the remembered, the artists explore a range of photographic frequencies, styles, and rhythmic scores. [This book] invites us to explore historical and contemporary archives of Black life while challenging dominant viewing practices, asking who is taking the picture, who is in or missing from the frame, and how to shift our interactions with the visual image through an intentionally embodied Black gaze." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction: Origins of Seeing Black / Kalamu ya Salaam -- Race men, race women: visual culture that speaks to the streets / Dr. Joyce M. Jackson -- Historical photographs -- Contemporary photographs -- Essays -- Photographers obscura / Girard Mouton, III -- We are who we say we are / Eric Waters -- Photographic gestures of futurity / Shana M. Griffin -- The art and science of photography / Kalamu ya Salaam.