ISBN: 9781479809004
Editorial: New
Autor: Willis, Deborah
Año de edición: 2021
N° Páginas: 256
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Críticas Enacts a visual curation of black Civil War history as few besides Willis are so expertly capable of. As deeply reflective about the telling of African American history using images, and given to a conception of African American men and women as "soldiers" within a strenuous physical and moral campaign against slavery, The Black Civil War Soldier is the handsomest picture book and more.-- "Civil War Book Review"The legendary photographer, curator, and historian Deb Willis has been shifting the way I see and think of images and historical representation for decades. The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict, her gorgeous and meticulously researched photobook, is expansive, yet it also manages to convey the intimacy of a beloved family heirloom. It is an impassioned tribute to America's Black soldiers and their families during the Civil War. It is also an insistence that we consider the many ramifications of conflict and racism. This is a monumental work, as well as a monument to the undying quest for freedom.-- "Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the Booker Prize"In a troubled age, when the past is increasingly called into question, we are all history buffs now. To that end, this remarkable book fills an enormous gap in our collective understanding of the past, a page-turner that will break your heart. Willis, professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, centers extraordinary and largely unknown images of Black Civil War soldiers within a reported narrative that highlights the enormous hardships they faced and the contributions they made. She makes history feel like a family album.-- "Fortune Magazine, named one of the Best Books of 2021, so far"[S]heds light on the experience of black Civil War soldier through never-seen-before photographs from the 19th century.-- "Daily Mail"At a time when victory in the Civil War was anything but assured, the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass urged the North to arm African American soldiers to fight against the forces that had enslaved them in the Confederate South. In doing so, he recognized the vital visual argument for citizenship that a uniformed Black man would make with 'the brass letter, US' on his belt and an 'eagle on his button.' Now, in this breathtaking volume, the scholar Deborah Willis reveals to us the fullness of their humanity through a photographic record she interprets through the paper trail they left behind. At once intimate and panoramic, The Black Civil War Soldier is both a major contribution to Civil War studies and an album of our ancestors' journey at the critical hour of American history that belongs to all of us as the descendants of their sacrifice.-- "Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University"Deborah Willis's vivid accounts of Black soldiers' sacrifices on the battlefield and their compassion for those on the home front make this book a must read for all Americans. Skillfully employing photographs and other printed materials as equal sources of history, Willis's nuanced depictions capture the urgent desire for freedom and full citizenship of more than 190,000 Black soldiers and sailors who volunteered for the Union. In The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship, Deborah Willis once again gives us a deeply researched, visually arresting, and textured chronicle of Black people at a crucial turning point in US history.-- "Francille Rusan Wilson, author of The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950 "In the unmatched research presented in The Black Civil War Soldier, a wealth of lush images, majestic fashion, narrative elements, and crucial pictorial details--books, uniforms, guns among them--perform for the camera a telling contradiction to the underlying horror embedded in the text, and points to the formidable role of photograph
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Willis, Deborah
- Editorial: New
- N° Paginas: 256
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
