For all the world to see : visual culture and the struggle for civil rights /
Berger, Maurice, 1956-
For all the world to see : visual culture and the struggle for civil rights / - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010. - xv, 207 p. : ill., plates (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Related exhibition held at the International Center of Photography, New York, May 21 - Sept. 12, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: weapons of choice -- It keeps on rollin' along: the status quo -- The new "new Negro": the culture of positive images -- Plates -- "Let the world see what I've seen": evidence and persuasion -- Guess who's coming to dinner: broadcasting race -- Epilogue: in our lives we are whole: the pictures of everyday life.
This volume examines the ways images mattered in the struggle for civil rights, and investigates various media including photography, television, film, magazines, newspapers, and advertising.
9780300121315 (hbk.) 9780300121315: £28.00 0300121318 (hbk.)
Race relations--Art--Exhibitions.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Art and race--Exhibitions.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Sources.--20th century
Civil rights movements--United States--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
Art and society--History--United States--20th century.
African Americans in art--Exhibitions.
African Americans in popular culture--History--20th century.
African Americans in mass media--Exhibitions.
Visual communication--History--United States--20th century.
Mass media--Social aspects--United States--Exhibitions.
Civil rights in art.
African Americans in art.
Racism in art.
973.04 / BER
For all the world to see : visual culture and the struggle for civil rights / - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010. - xv, 207 p. : ill., plates (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Related exhibition held at the International Center of Photography, New York, May 21 - Sept. 12, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: weapons of choice -- It keeps on rollin' along: the status quo -- The new "new Negro": the culture of positive images -- Plates -- "Let the world see what I've seen": evidence and persuasion -- Guess who's coming to dinner: broadcasting race -- Epilogue: in our lives we are whole: the pictures of everyday life.
This volume examines the ways images mattered in the struggle for civil rights, and investigates various media including photography, television, film, magazines, newspapers, and advertising.
9780300121315 (hbk.) 9780300121315: £28.00 0300121318 (hbk.)
Race relations--Art--Exhibitions.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Art and race--Exhibitions.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Sources.--20th century
Civil rights movements--United States--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
Art and society--History--United States--20th century.
African Americans in art--Exhibitions.
African Americans in popular culture--History--20th century.
African Americans in mass media--Exhibitions.
Visual communication--History--United States--20th century.
Mass media--Social aspects--United States--Exhibitions.
Civil rights in art.
African Americans in art.
Racism in art.
973.04 / BER