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Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White
Mr. Bob Ray Sanders
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Description for Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White
Hardcover. In 1934, the year Calvin Littlejohn came to Fort Worth, the city was a sleepy little burg. In Fort Worth, Littlejohn began what would become a life-long career of documenting the black community. This book features more than 150 shots Littlejohn captured over the course of his career. Num Pages: 216 pages, 178 b&w photos, photography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 279 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1361.
In 1934, the year Calvin Littlejohn came to Fort Worth, the city was a sleepy little burg. This was the Jim Crow era, when mainstream newspapers wouldn't publish pictures of black citizens and white photographers wouldn't take pictures in black schools. In Fort Worth, Littlejohn began what would become a life-long career of documenting the black community. And there would be nothing remotely related to the white culture's depictions of Amos 'n' Andy or black kids grinning over a slice of watermelon in Littlejohn's portrayal of his adopted home and the people he came to appreciate and love. Littlejohn's natural ... Read more
In 1934, the year Calvin Littlejohn came to Fort Worth, the city was a sleepy little burg. This was the Jim Crow era, when mainstream newspapers wouldn't publish pictures of black citizens and white photographers wouldn't take pictures in black schools. In Fort Worth, Littlejohn began what would become a life-long career of documenting the black community. And there would be nothing remotely related to the white culture's depictions of Amos 'n' Andy or black kids grinning over a slice of watermelon in Littlejohn's portrayal of his adopted home and the people he came to appreciate and love. Littlejohn's natural ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875653815
SKU
V9780875653815
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About Mr. Bob Ray Sanders
An introduction by BOB RAY SANDERS to Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White sets Littlejohn's photography in its social, political, and cultural context. Sanders' thorough research into identifying unnamed people in Littlejohn's photographs adds much to the history of the black community in Fort Worth. Sanders' journalism career has spanned more than three decades and three ... Read more
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