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Article: Deborah Willis and Carla Williams. The Black Female Body: A Photographic History.(Book Review)
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- African American Review
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- June 22, 2003
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Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2002. 228 pp. $60.00 cloth/$35.00 paper.
Deborah Willis, professor of photography and imaging at New York University, and cultural critic Carla Williams have collaborated to author The Black Female Body: A Photographic History. This landmark book brings an important marginalized group to center stage through an extraordinary contribution to the study of photography, art history, women and gender, and the African Diaspora. Organized into three parts--"Colonial Conquest," "The Cultural Body," and "The Body Beautiful"--this book chronicles the various representational functions of the black female body in over 200 photographs from the ...