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Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits (Smithsonian, 2007)

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Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits. Deborah Willis, USMTH (Smithsonian); 1 edition, July 2007, 176 pages, 12.3 x 9.2 x 1.1 inches, ISBN-10: 1588342425/ ISBN-13: 978-1588342423, hardcover, US $35.

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African American Vernacular Photography (Steidl/ICP, 2006)

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African American Vernacular Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection, Steidl/ICP, March 2006, 120 pages, 11 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches, ISBN-10:3865212255; ISBN-13: 978-3865212252, US $25.
From the publisher’s site:
This book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same title on view at the International Center of Photography, presents an extraordinary group of images of African Americans [...]

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Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body (University of Washington Press, 2008)

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Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. Edited by Barbara Thompson, University of Washington Press with Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2008, 376 pp., 250 illus., 212 in color, notes, bibliog., index, 9 x 12 in. ISBN: Paper: 0-295-98771-5/ 978-0-295-98771-2; Cloth: 0-295-98770-7/ 978-0-295-98770-5, Paper: US $50.00, Cloth: US $75.00.

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    Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
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