Afterimage, May 1st, 2002
Deborah Willis and Carla Williams
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2002
The Black Female Body is a fascinating survey of photographic representations of black women of African descent. Authors Deborah Willis and Carla Williams, both practicing photographers and prolific writers, present a spectrum of images that range from early ethnographic documents of "Hottentot Venuses, whose generous buttocks made them popular specimens in zoological gardens at the world expositions of nineteenth-century Europe, to the self-aware images of Renee Cox who photographs her nude, physically-fit b...
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