BRONZEVILLE : Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943 ( signed )

1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 2003, Black cloth hardcover with the dust jacket, 272 page book. Illustrated with black & white photo images taken in Chicago in African American neighborhoods. This is a very scarce rare Inscribed and signed edition by the author on the main title page. Condition : Fine with some shelf rubs . Dust jacket has edge rubs .

From Publisher:

In the 1940s, the federal government sent a group of gifted photographers across the United States to record and publicize conditions in cities, towns, and rural areas that were the destination of an unprecedented migration. Two of these photographers, Russell Lee and Edwin Rosskam, spent time on Chicago's South Side, eventually producing over a thousand documentary images of Bronzeville's life. This remarkable coverage of a black urban community--the only significant collection of photographs of black Chicago during this pivotal era--has largely gone unpublished until now.

In over 100 handsome full-page black-and-white photographs of bustling city streets and sidewalks, prosperous middle-class businesses, thriving cabarets, as well as dirt-poor migrants from the deep South, this stunning tribute captures the vitality of a city whose burgeoning black population produced a vibrant and sophisticated culture now familiar worldwide. With original essays on the migration and the photography project, and contemporary commentary by Richard Wright and others, Bronzeville is a unique and exceptionally beautiful evocation of one of the defining moments in American cultural history.

Product Info

ISBN: 1565846184

ISBN-13: 9781565846180

Publisher: The New Press

Year: 2003

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

Seller Info

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Country: United States