Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 2000. Third edition. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with black spine lettering, black dust jacket with bw illustration and white lettering. 209 pp, profusely illustrated in bw and color. This is the 3rd edition limited to 10,000 copies. VG+/VG (light scuffing to dust jacket. Pages are very crisp and clean.). Item #188329
ISBN: 9780944092699
The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909, an organization dedicated to passing federal anti-lynching laws. Through all this terror and carnage someone-many times a professional photographer-carried a camera and took pictures of the events. These lynching photographs were often made into postcards and sold as souvenirs to the crowds in attendance. These images are some of photography's most brutal, surviving to this day so that we may now look back on the terrorism unleashed on America's African-American community and perhaps know our history and ourselves better. The almost one hundred images reproduced here are a testament to the camera's ability to make us remember what we often choose to forget." website description. Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-207).
OCLC: 43312471
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