Preface by Wlliam Clift, The Darkness and The Light: Photographs by Doris Ullmann. Aperture 1974.
Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White, You Have Seen Their Faces (1937) Foreword by Alan Trachtenberg, University of Georgia Press, 1995.
James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 1939 & 1940.
Richard Wright and Edwin Rosskam, 12 Million Black Voices. 1941. Thunder Mouth Press Reissue, 1988. Preface by David Bradley.
Godfrey Frankel, In The Alleys: Kids in the Shadow of the Capitol. Smithsonian Institution Press 1995.
Edward Steichen, The Family of Man. Museum of Modern Art, New York 1955.
Langston Hughes and Roy de Carava, The Sweet Flypaper of Life. 1955.
Dorothea Lange & Paul Taylor, An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion JeanMichelPlace, 1999.
Helen Levitt and James Agee, A Way of Seeing (1965) Duke UP 1992.
Allan Schoener, Harlem on My Mind. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968.
Wayne F. Miller: Chicago’s South Side, 1946-1948. University of California Press, 2000.
Relevant Commentary:
Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson, And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans and The Rise and Fall of the Cotton in The South. Pantheon 1989.
Erick J. Sandeen, Picturing an Exhibition: The Family of Man and 1950s America. Alburquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
Maren Stange, Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures 1941-1943. The New Press, 2003.
Shawn Michelle Smith, Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture. Duke UP 2004.
James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Other New Manuscripts edited by Michael A. Lofaro and Hugh Davis, University of Tennessee Press 2005.
About Me
- Michele Wallace
- I am a writer and a professor of English at the City College of New York, and the CUNY Graduate Center. My books include Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (1979), Invisibility Blues (1990), Black Popular Culture (1992), and Dark Designs and Visual Culture (2005). I write cultural criticism frequently and am currently working on a project on creativity and feminism among the women in my family, some of which is posted on the Soul Pictures blog.
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