Bibliography and Exhibitions

MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

ATLANTA (GA). Atlanta College of Art.
Songs of My People: African Americans: A Self-Portrait.
June 26-August 9, 1991; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1992.
xiii, 209 pp. exhibit. cat. of 150 works by fifty African American photographers; intro. by Gordon Parks. Eric Easter, D. Michael Cheers, and Dudley M. Brooks, eds. This was a photographic project initiated by the editors, not the usual historical compilation. Included: Jules Allen, Howard Bingham, Bob Black, D. Michael Cheers, Michel DuCille, James V. Evers, Roland L. Freeman, Ronald L. Griemans, C.W. Griffin, Keith Hadley, Durell Hall, Jr., Chester Higgins, Jason Miccolo Johnson, David C. Lee, Matthew Lewis, Kirk McKoy, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Ozier Muhammad, Marilyn Nance, Eli Reed, Morris Richardson II, Jeffery Allan Salter, Coreen Simpson Lester Sloan, D. Stevens, Bruce Talamon, Dixie D. Vereen, John H. White, Keith Williams, et al. [Traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1992; Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, April-May 1992; California Afro-American Museum, May 1992 -- at which eight photographs by D Stevens and others related to the Los Angeles riots of 1992 were added. A second small tour of 60 photographs traveled to: Museum of the City of New York; the DuSable Museum, Chicago; the Uffizi, Florence, Italy, and other international venues.] [Reviews: Renee Lucas Wayne. "An African-American Self-Portrait in Photos." Philadelphia Daily News, April 17, 1992; Shauna Snow. "Redressing the Balance - Photography: 'Songs of My People' is Designed to Contribute Toward Understanding ... and Healing the City." Los Angeles Times, May 30, 1992; Charles Hagen. "Review/Photography: 'Songs of My People,' A Black Self-Portrait." NYT, October 9, 1992; "Unfinished Songs: Three Exhibitions at Philadelphia's Afro-American Museum" The Crisis, October, 1992; long description, but with many names of photographers mispelled.] Note: the photographs from the exhibition were donated to the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri. 4to (30.5 x 25.4 cm.; 12 x 10.2 in.), black pictorial boards, pictorial dust jacket. First ed.