| Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964 Contributor(s): Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of (Compiled by), Pacini, Marina (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0915525100 ISBN-13: 9780915525102 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2008 Annotation: An invaluable pictorial overview of African American culture and history portrayed in photographs from one of Memphis's leading African American newspapers, the Memphis World, from 1949-1964; accompanied by informative essays, newspaper accounts, and/or interviews for each photograph featured |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 071.5 |
| LCCN: 2008928665 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.4" W x 8.4" (1.15 lbs) 135 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Chronological Period - 1940's - Chronological Period - 1950's - Chronological Period - 1960's - Locality - Memphis, Tennessee - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long considered lost, these photographs from one of Memphis's leading African American newspapers, the Memphis World, published from 1931 to 1973, chronicle the complexity and variety of its readers' lives. In marked contrast with the reporting in white newspapers, which selectively focused on poverty, violence, and civil rights protests, the World, like many black newspapers, celebrated the accomplishments and documented the challenges faced by the city's diverse population. The paper regularly published photographs by Ernest Withers, Mark Stansbury, Hooks Brothers Photography, and R. Earl Williams, among others. Behind these seemingly ordinary images, however, is evidence of the courage, dignity, and ingenuity of African Americans in the Jim Crow South. Photographs from the "Memphis World," 1949-1964 is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. It includes essays by Marina Pacini, the museum's chief curator and exhibition curator; Deborah Willis, New York University professor and internationally recognized authority on African American photography; and Russell Wigginton, historian, Rhodes College. Each of the fifty-six photographs reproduced is elucidated by a short essay. Many of the images are accompanied by newspaper accounts or interviews with the people pictured or with their families to further explore the history of the photographs. |
Contributor Bio(s): Memphis Brooks Museum of Art: - Located in the heart of Memphis, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is the oldest and largest encyclopedic museum in the state of Tennessee.Pacini, Marina: - Marina Pacini is the museum's chief curator, exhibition curator for the Memphis World Project, and author of Philadelphia: A Guide to Art-Related Archival Materials. |