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One Shot Harris. The Photographs of Charles "Teenie" Harris
by Crough, Stanley; Deborah Willis (Biographical Essay)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine to fine condition
- ISBN 10
- 0810932725
- ISBN 13
- 9780810932722
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About This Item
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine to fine condition. Oblong Quarto. 167 (1)pp. Original bright red paper-covered boards with black and white lettering on cover and spine; in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with white and black lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. Title page printed in two tones to gray-brown paper.
"From the 1930s to the 1970s, Charles "Teenie" Harris traveled the alleys, workplaces, nightclubs and streets of his native city of Pittsburgh with a Speed Graphic camera in hand. Working first as a freelancer, then as a staff photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the preeminent black news weeklies in America, Harris ceaselessly chronicled half a century of African-American life. His work, collected for the first time in this book, offers a rare look into the African-American community during and after the Civil Rights movement." (Publisher).
Profusely illustrated with b/w full page photographs throughout. Contains an essay on Charles "Teenie" Harris by Stanley Crouch and a biographical essay by Deborah Willis. Index at rear. Laid in a photo-illustrated invitation to a reception for the exhibition "One Shot Harris" at the Tampa Gallery of Photographic Arts in 2005. Minor wear along edges of dustjacket, else in fine condition.
"From the 1930s to the 1970s, Charles "Teenie" Harris traveled the alleys, workplaces, nightclubs and streets of his native city of Pittsburgh with a Speed Graphic camera in hand. Working first as a freelancer, then as a staff photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the preeminent black news weeklies in America, Harris ceaselessly chronicled half a century of African-American life. His work, collected for the first time in this book, offers a rare look into the African-American community during and after the Civil Rights movement." (Publisher).
Profusely illustrated with b/w full page photographs throughout. Contains an essay on Charles "Teenie" Harris by Stanley Crouch and a biographical essay by Deborah Willis. Index at rear. Laid in a photo-illustrated invitation to a reception for the exhibition "One Shot Harris" at the Tampa Gallery of Photographic Arts in 2005. Minor wear along edges of dustjacket, else in fine condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51291
- Title
- One Shot Harris. The Photographs of Charles "Teenie" Harris
- Author
- Crough, Stanley; Deborah Willis (Biographical Essay)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine to fine condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0810932725
- ISBN 13
- 9780810932722
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Teenie" Harris, alleys, nightclubs, workplace, black history,African-American photography, b/w photography, Civil Rights movement
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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