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205.01 Documentary > Slavery in America
   
205.02 Documentary > Southworth and Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker
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Published in Trial and Imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, At Pensacola, Florida, for Aiding Slaves To Escape From Bondage, with an Appendix, containing a sketch of his life (Boston: Published At The Anti-Slavery Office, 25 Cornhill. 1845.).
Account of the event by Captain Walker (p.40,43):
After the expiration of the hour, I was taken back of the court-house, and water given me to wash with, and then conducted into court again, to receive the remainder of my sentence. When about to be branded, I was placed in the prisoner's box. The marshal, Ebenezer Dorr, formerly of Maine, proceeded to tie my hand to a part of the railing in front. I remarked that there was no need of tying it, for I would hold still. He observed that it was best to make sure, and tied it firmly to the post, in fair view; he then took from the fire the branding-iron, of a slight red heat, and applied it to the ball of my hand, and pressed it on firmly, for fifteen or twenty seconds. It made a spattering noise, like a handful of salt in the fire, as the skin seared and gave way to the hot iron. The pain was severe while the iron was on, and for some time afterwards. There appeared to be but few that wished to witness the scene; but my friend, George Willis, placed himself where he could have a fair view, and feasted his eyes upon it, apparently with great delight.
Southworth & Hawes took a daguerreotype of the branded hand of Captain Walker in 1845 and it was reproduced on the cover and title page for the book.
205.03 Documentary > The scourged back
   
205.04 Documentary > Abolitionists
   
205.05 Documentary > Roles and representation of African Americans in nineteenth century photography
    
PLEASE NOTE: This requires analysis and I would welcome collaboration. Alan Griffiths (1 September 2012)
205.06 Documentary > Emancipated slaves in the USA
       
205.07 Documentary > Real photo postcards: African Americans
                             
205.08 Documentary > Francis Benjamin Johnston: Hampton Album (1899-1900)
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In 1899 Francis Benjamin Johnston was commissioned by Hollis Burke Frissell to photograph the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Hampton, Virginia. This school of African Americans and Native Americans students had been founded in 1868 following the American Civil War (1861-1865) to provide education to freedmen. This series of photographs captures the everyday life of the school and was shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900.
205.09 Documentary > Doris Ulmann: Roll Jordan Roll (1933)
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205.10 Documentary > The Klu Klux Klan and race hated in America
     
205.11 Documentary > A symbol of race hatred - lynchings in America
  
205.12 Documentary > Martin Luther King Jr.
        
205.13 Documentary > Ernest Withers: The struggle for civil rights in the USA
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General reading
1973-1976, The Black Photographers Annual, (NY: Black Photographers Annual, Inc.) [4 vols] [Δ]
Allen, James, 2000, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, (Twin Palms Publishers) isbn-10: 0944092691 isbn-13: 978-0944092699 [John Lewis (Foreword), Leon F. Litwack (Contributor), Hilton Als (Contributor)] [Δ]
Apel, Dora & Smith, Shawn Michelle, 2008, Lynching Photographs, (University of California Press) isbn-10: 0520253329 isbn-13: 978-0520253322 [Δ]
Asanta, Molefi K. & Mattson. Mark, T., 1998, The African American Atlas: Black History & Culture an Illustrated Reference, (New York: Simon & Schuster) isbn-10: 0028649842 [2nd edition] [Δ]
Blair, Sara, 2007, Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century, (Princeton University Press) isbn-13: 978-0691130873 [Δ]
Coar, Valencia Hollins (ed.), 1983, A Century of Black Photographers, 1840–1960, (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design) [Δ]
Coddington, Ronald S., 2012, African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album, (The Johns Hopkins University Press) isbn-10: 142140625X isbn-13: 978-1421406251 [Forward by J. Matthew Gallman] [Δ]
Easter, Eric et al. (eds.), 1992, Songs of My People: African-Americans, A Self-Portrait, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company) [Δ]
Linderman, Jim, 2011, Secret History of the Black Pin Up: Women of Color from Pin Up to Porn, (Blurb (print-on-demand)) [Blurb id: 2488194] [Δ]
Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne, 1993, Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers, (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1986. Reprint. New York: Writers and Readers Publishing) [Δ]
Reichlin, Elinor, 1977, Summer, ‘Faces of Slavery‘, American Heritage, vol.28, no.4, pp.4-11 [Δ]
Smith, Shawn Michelle, 2004, Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture, (Duke University Press Books) isbn-10: 0822333430 isbn-13: 978-0822333432 [Δ]
Wallis, Brian, 1995, Summer, ‘Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz's Slave Daguerreotypes‘, American Art, vol.9, no.2, pp.38-61 [Δ]
Willis, Deborah, 2000, Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, (New York - London: W.W. Norton & Company) isbn-10: 0393048802 [Δ]
Willis, Deborah, 2009, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, (W. W. Norton & Company) isbn-10: 0393066967 isbn-13: 978-0393066968 [Δ]
Willis, Deborah & Krauthamer, Barbara, 2012, Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery, (Temple University Press) isbn-10: 1439909857 isbn-13: 978-1439909850 [Δ]
Willis, Deborah (ed.), 1994, Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography, (New York: The New Press) [Δ]
Willis, Deborah (ed.), 2007, Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits, (Smithsonian Institution Press) isbn-10: 1588342425 isbn-13: 978-1588342423 [Δ]
Willis-Thomas, Deborah, 1985, An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography of Black Photographers, 1940–1988, (New York: Garland) [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
James Presley Ball
Willis, Deborah (ed.), 1993, J.P. Ball: Daguerrean and Studio Photographer, (New York & London: Garland) isbn-10: 0815307160 isbn-13: 978-0815307167 [Δ]
Julian Dimock
Johnson. Thomas L.; Root, Nina J. & Dimock, Julian, 2002, Camera Man's Journey: Julian Dimock's South, (University of Georgia Press) isbn-10: 0820324248 isbn-13: 978-0820324241 [Δ]
Leonard Freed
Freed, Leonard, 2013, This is the Day: The March on Washington, (J. Paul Getty Museum) isbn-10: 1606061216 isbn-13: 978-1606061213 [Introduction by Michael Eric Dyson, foreword by Julian Bond, afterword by Paul Farber] [Δ]
Goodridge Brothers
Jezierski, John Vincent, 2002, Enterprising Images: The Goodridge Brothers, African American Photographers, 1847-1922, (Wayne State University Press) isbn-10: 0814324517 isbn-13: 978-0814324516 [Δ]
Chester Higgins
Higgins Jr., Chester, 1994, Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa, (Bantam) isbn-10: 0553095560 isbn-13: 978-0553095562 [Δ]
Higgins Jr., Chester, 2004, Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey, (Doubleday) isbn-10: 0385509782 isbn-13: 978-0385509787 [Δ]
Higgins Jr., Chester & Coombs, Order (author), 1974, Drums of Life: A Photographic Essay on the Black Man in America, (Anchor Press) isbn-10: 0385071345 isbn-13: 978-0385071345 [Δ]
Higgins, Chester & Angelou, Maya (Foreword), 2000, Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging, (Bulfinch) isbn-10: 0821226878 isbn-13: 978-0821226872 [Δ]
Francis Benjamin Johnston
Kirstein, Lincoln (ed.) & Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1966, The Hampton Album, (New York: Museum of Modern Art) [Δ]
Przyblyski, Jeanne M., 1998, Autumn, ‘American Visions at the Paris Exposition 1900: Another Look at Frances Benjamin Johnston’s Hampton Photographs‘, Art Journal, vol.57, no.3 [Δ]
Russell Lee
Strange, Maren (ed.), 2003, Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943, (New Press) isbn-10: 1565846184 isbn-13: 978-1565846180 [Δ]
Wayne Miller
Miller, Wayne F., 2000, Wayne F. Miller: Chicago's South Side, 1946-1948, (University of California Press) isbn-10: 0520223160 isbn-13: 978-0520223165 [Δ]
Gordon Parks
Johnson, Charles, 2011, Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Gordon Parks, (Giles in association with the Library of Congress) isbn-13: 978-1904832874 [Δ]
Kunhardt, Peter & Roth, Paul (eds.), 2012, Gordon Parks: Collected Works, (Steidl / The Gordon Parks Foundation) isbn-13: 978-3869305301 [Five volumes] [Δ]
Parks, Gordon, 1990, Voices in the Mirror, An Autobiography., (New York: Nan A. Talese) [Δ]
Parks, Gordon, 2005, Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography, (New York: Harlem Moon) [Δ]
P.H. Polk
Higgins, Chester & Chapp, Belena, 1998, Through These Eyes: The Photographs of P. H. Polk, (University Gallery / University of Delaware) isbn-10: 1887421033 isbn-13: 978-1887421034 [Δ]
Polk, P.H., 1986, P.H. Polk: Southern Photographer, (Atlanta, Ga.: Nexus Contemporary Art Center) [Δ]
Edwin Rosskam
Strange, Maren (ed.), 2003, Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943, (New Press) isbn-10: 1565846184 isbn-13: 978-1565846180 [Δ]
Addison Scurlock
2009, The Scurlock Studio And Black Washington: Picturing The Promise, (Smithsonian) isbn-10: 158834262X isbn-13: 978-1588342621 [Δ]
Scurlock Studio
2009, The Scurlock Studio And Black Washington: Picturing The Promise, (Smithsonian) isbn-10: 158834262X isbn-13: 978-1588342621 [Δ]
Doris Ulmann
Featherstone, D., 1985, Doris Ulmann, American Portraits, (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press) [Δ]
Peterkin, J. & Ulmann, D., 1933, Roll, Jordan, Roll, (New York: Robert O. Ballou) [Δ]
James Van der Zee
Van Der Zee, James, 1968, Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900–1968., (Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition. New York: Random House) [Edited by Allon Schoener. Preface by Thomas P. F. Hoving. Introduction by Candice Van Ellison] [Δ]
Van Der Zee, James, 1973, James Van Der Zee, (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan and Morgan) [Δ]
Van Der Zee, James, 1978, The Harlem Book of the Dead: James Van Der Zee, Owen Dodson, Camille Billops, (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan) [Foreword by Toni Morrison] [Δ]
Willis-Braithwaite, Deborah, 1993, Van Der Zee: Photographer, 1886–1983, (New York: Harry N. Abrams) [Δ]
Carl Van Vechten
Bernard, Emily, 2012, Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White, (Yale University Press) isbn-13: 978-0300121995 [Δ]
Byrd, Rudolph P. & Van Vechten, Carl, 1993, Generations in Black and White: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection, (University of Georgia Press) isbn-10: 0820315583 isbn-13: 978-0820315584 [Δ]
Carrie Mae Weems
Willis, D.; Zeidler, J.; Weems, C. M. & Johnston, F. B., 2001, Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project, (Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture) [Δ]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
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