Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century

by Sara Blair

Book Overview

The Harlem riot of 1935 not only signaled the end of the Harlem Renaissance; it made black America's cultural capital an icon for the challenges of American modernity. Luring photographers interested in socially conscious, journalistic, and aesthetic representation, post-Renaissance Harlem helped give rise to America's full-blown image culture and its definitive genre, documentary. The images made there in turn became critical to the work of black...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691130876
• ISBN13: 9780691130873
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"