{"product_id":"photographs-from-the-memphis-world-1949-1964-9780915525102","title":"Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964","description":"Long considered lost, these photographs from one of Memphis's leading African American newspapers, the \u003ci\u003eMemphis World\u003c\/i\u003e, published from 1931 to 1973, chronicle the complexity and variety of its readers' lives. In marked contrast with the reporting in white newspapers, which selectively focused on poverty, violence, and civil rights protests, the \u003ci\u003eWorld\u003c\/i\u003e, like many black newspapers, celebrated the accomplishments and documented the challenges faced by the city's diverse population. The paper regularly published photographs by Ernest Withers, Mark Stansbury, Hooks Brothers Photography, and R. Earl Williams, among others. Behind these seemingly ordinary images, however, is evidence of the courage, dignity, and ingenuity of African Americans in the Jim Crow South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhotographs from the\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eMemphis World\u003c\/i\u003e,\" \u003ci\u003e1949-1964\u003c\/i\u003e is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. It includes essays by Marina Pacini, the museum's chief curator and exhibition curator; Deborah Willis, New York University professor and internationally recognized authority on African American photography; and Russell Wigginton, historian, Rhodes College. Each of the fifty-six photographs reproduced is elucidated by a short essay. Many of the images are accompanied by newspaper accounts or interviews with the people pictured or with their families to further explore the history of the photographs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780915525102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 8.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Memphis Brooks Museum of Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39903273386059,"sku":"9780915525102","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_54125586-c1a2-4724-aa40-dfc6e50d5eb0.jpg?v=1668624277","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/photographs-from-the-memphis-world-1949-1964-9780915525102","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}