Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922 [book review]

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Kathelene McCarty Smith, Associate Professor and Department Head, Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/

Abstract: “A picture is worth a thousand words” is the perfect idiom for a book that so effectively conveys the power and intimacy that can be captured by portrait photography. Before the reader even opens the book, Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922, they will notice the striking image of a young African American woman on the cover. Her eyes are compelling, and they beckon you to look inside where you will discover a striking collection of portraits created from Mangum’s original multiple-image glass plate negatives. His subjects’ gazes give silent testimony to life in Post-Reconstruction North Carolina and Virginia.

Additional Information

Publication
The Southeastern Librarian, Vol. 67, No. 3, Fall
Language: English
Date: 2019
Keywords
Hugh Mangum, photography, book review

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