Product Details
- * Pub. Date: October 2009
- * Weight : 4.2500
- * Dimensions : 1.17" H x 11.98" L x 9.64" w
- * Formats : No
- * ISBN : 393066967
- * Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
- * Book Theme : Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General
- * Book Type : Hardcover
Description
As a student in the 1970s, Deborah Willis came to the realization that images of black beauty, female and male, simply did not exist in the larger culture. Determined to redress this imbalance, Willis examined everything from vintage ladies' journals to black newspapers, and started what would become a lifelong quest. With more than two hundred arresting images, many previously unpublished, Posing Beauty recovers a world many never knew existed. Historical subjects such as Billie Holiday and Josephine Baker
