Black: A Celebration of a Culture

Rating:
Summary: Beautiful!
Review: Deborah Willis is a leading historian of African-American photography
and is the Professor of Photography & Imaging at New York
University's Tisch School of the Arts. In BLACK: A CELEBRATION OF A
CULTURE, she has compiled over 500 photographs vividly displaying
African-Americans in all areas of life to include: fashion, sports,
worship, with family, and more. It is a wonderful collection that
showcases the beauty, success, and the societal place African-
Americans have carved for themselves in a country in which we weren't
really invited.

Not only does it show the images that we're familiar with in the
history of our race, but it also shows those common moments of
everyday things validating the famous saying, "pictures are worth a
thousand words." It is a reflection of our lives and one of the most
rewarding ways of recording ones memories. There's something to
represent everyone and everything of our past and present: from
little boys playing sports, to little girls in Sunday dresses and
jumping rope and further back in times of civil rights
demonstrations, in the cotton fields, and back to the present
spotlighting weekends hanging out with the family.

There's nothing missing in this brilliant and beautiful collector's
item. The rich culture displayed in this book is one that should be
shared by everyone and one that each of us should mimic in our own
families, through our photo albums, scrapbooks, or other honorary
spots we've made for archiving our bloodline. It is "one story--our
story--told through photographic imagery."

Reviewed by Tee C. Royal
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

Rating:
Summary: Beautiful!
Review: Deborah Willis is a leading historian of African-American photography
and is the Professor of Photography & Imaging at New York
University's Tisch School of the Arts. In BLACK: A CELEBRATION OF A
CULTURE, she has compiled over 500 photographs vividly displaying
African-Americans in all areas of life to include: fashion, sports,
worship, with family, and more. It is a wonderful collection that
showcases the beauty, success, and the societal place African-
Americans have carved for themselves in a country in which we weren't
really invited.

Not only does it show the images that we're familiar with in the
history of our race, but it also shows those common moments of
everyday things validating the famous saying, "pictures are worth a
thousand words." It is a reflection of our lives and one of the most
rewarding ways of recording ones memories. There's something to
represent everyone and everything of our past and present: from
little boys playing sports, to little girls in Sunday dresses and
jumping rope and further back in times of civil rights
demonstrations, in the cotton fields, and back to the present
spotlighting weekends hanging out with the family.

There's nothing missing in this brilliant and beautiful collector's
item. The rich culture displayed in this book is one that should be
shared by everyone and one that each of us should mimic in our own
families, through our photo albums, scrapbooks, or other honorary
spots we've made for archiving our bloodline. It is "one story--our
story--told through photographic imagery."

Reviewed by Tee C. Royal
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers