Virtually As New

The Black Photographers Annual Volume 2 [Wrappers Issue]

Crawford, Joe (editor)

Publication: Brooklyn: Black Photographers Annual, 1974. First Edition.

Notes: The second of four volumes seeking to define "a new Blackness, real and strong as our history, pushing consciousness toward a new place" through photography (quoted from the first volume in the series). At the time Joe Crawford started this series, African American photographers had been almost completely left out of the photographic literature. See the essay by Carla Williams in Aperture 223 for a short study of the place of these "annuals" (which were issued several years apart) in photobook history.

This volume reproduces—with well-printed halftones—the images of 51 black photographers from the US, England, and Canada. Contributors include Roy DeCarava, James Van DerZee, Ming Smith, St. Clair Bourne, and Chuck Stewart. Three photographers, P. H. Polk, Jimmie Manns, and Ted Gray, are given portfolios of several images, with a biographical introduction. Polk operated a studio in Tuskegee, Alabama, beginning in the early 1930s. This portfolio publishes some of his compelling personal work.

102, [6] pages. 8-3/4 by 10 inches.

Edition + Condition: First edition, wrappers (paperback) issue, issued simultaneously with a hardcover version. A fine copy, still bright white (the wrappers tend to yellow over time). As nice a copy as you could hope for.

Item No: #365414

Price: $300