Posing beauty : African American images, from the 1890s to the present / Deborah Willis.
2009
TR680 .W53 2009
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Title
Posing beauty : African American images, from the 1890s to the present / Deborah Willis.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780393066968
0393066967
0393066967
Publication Details
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.
Language
English
Description
xxxi, 243 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Call Number
TR680 .W53 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
779.089/96073
Summary
Showcases portrait photography of African Americans taken from the 1890s through the 2000s, along with text discussing the evolution of the idea of beauty for men and women.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Constructing a pose
Body and image
Modeling beauty and beauty contests
Color plates.
Body and image
Modeling beauty and beauty contests
Color plates.