{"product_id":"picturing-black-history-photographs-and-stories-that-changed-the-world","title":"Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories that Changed the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e** Nominated for a NAACP Image Award **\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Stunning . . . Provides fresh perspective on historical photographs and snapshots of Black life.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“An astonishing work.\" —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePicturing Black History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e uncovers untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally significant moments. This beautiful collectible volume makes a thoughtful gift and is full of rousing, vibrant essays paired with rarely seen photographs that expand our understanding of Black history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a collaborative effort between Getty Images, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOrigins: Current Events in Historical Perspective\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the History departments at The Ohio State and Miami Universities. It informs, educates, and inspires our current moment by exploring the past, blending the breadth and depth of Getty Images’s archives with the renowned expertise of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOrigins\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econtributors and The Ohio State’s and Miami’s History departments, including Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas Breyfogle, and Steve Conn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCreated by a growing collective of professional historians, art historians, Black Studies scholars, and photographers and showcasing Getty Images’s unmatched collection of photographs, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePicturing Black History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e embraces the power of visual storytelling to relay little-known stories of oppression and resistance, perseverance and resilience, freedom, dreams, imagination, and joy within the United States and around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn collecting these new photographic essays, this book furthers an ongoing dialogue on the significance of Black history and Black life, sharing new perspectives on the current status of prejudice and discrimination bias with a wider audience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePicturing Black History\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003euses the latest academic learning and scholarship to recontextualize and dispel prejudices, while uncovering, digitizing, and preserving new archival materials to amplify a more inclusive visual landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\"Picturing Black History\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eoffers 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ABRAMS BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47489148715173,"sku":"9781419769559","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/2472\/files\/71h6GzWydwL._SL1279.jpg?v=1770823902","url":"https:\/\/museumshop.high.org\/products\/picturing-black-history-photographs-and-stories-that-changed-the-world","provider":"High Museum of Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}