Praise for Picturing Black History

“This stunning array of images curated from the Getty archive provides fresh perspective on historical photographs and snapshots of Black life captured across the country. [ . . . ] Painstakingly curated and highly moving.”
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“In this fascinating and important collection of previously unseen or underappreciated photographs, a team of art historians and archivists have created the definitive photographic account of the Civil Rights Movement . . . . a necessary addition for library and personal bookshelves alike.”
BOOKPAGE, Starred Review

“An astonishing work, Picturing Black History offers a trove of both famous and unseen photos with brief, poignant accompanying essays to show not only the centrality of Black people to American history but also how African Americans used the photographer’s lens to tell their own stories. The editors, authors, and Getty images have created a beautiful book that stands on its own as a work of art, a veritable museum in print.”
HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University


About the Authors

Daniela Edmeier is a Managing Editor of Picturing Black History. She is a PhD Candidate in History at The Ohio State University, where she studies immigration, race and ethnicity, and settler colonialism in French Algeria. Damarius Johnson is a PhD Student at The Ohio State University. He is a public historian whose research examines intersecting traditions of Black museum-building in the United States and West Africa. Nicholas B. Breyfogle is a co-editor of the online magazines Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Picturing Black History and Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University and Director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching. Steven Conn is a co-editor of the online magazines Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Picturing Black History and W. E. Smith Professor of History, Miami University.

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