Black Beauty: A History and a Celebration - Softcover

Arogundade, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156025341X ISBN 13: 9781560253419

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001

Synopsis

Through over 150 color and black and white photographs and an engaging, informed text, Black Beauty discusses the position of blacks within the beauty hierarchy of the West, as well as the kinds of work available to black models within the past century. Author Ben Arogundade also offers insight to the ways in which certain styles of black beauty have been promoted above others. In considering black icons and celebrities from Marcus Garvey, Josephine Baker, and Muhammad Ali to Billy Dee Williams, Grace Jones and Lauryn Hill, Black Beauty reveals the many differing images of those who have embodied black beauty in our culture. Portraits by Herb Ritts, Albert Watson, Richard Avedon, and other eminent photographers are included in this stunning compilation.

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Review:

"[O]ffers a visual history of the varieties of black beauty with striking artwork and lavish photographs of cultural heavyweights." -- Helen Frangoulis, Playboy

About this edition

• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 156025341X
• ISBN 13: 9781560253419
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192