Picturing the Promise; The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington
Washington DC: National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 224 pages. Oversized book, measuring 11-1/4 inches by 9-1/4 inches. Illustrated endpapers. Includes Foreword by Deborah Willis, Remembering Black Washington by Lonnie G. Bunch III; Portraits, with reflections by Jeffrey John Fearing, Brian Gilmore, Marya A. McQuirter, and Hilary Scurlock. Sources. Index. The book features essays from 25 contributors including Dorothy Height (Chair and President emerita of the National Council of Negro Women); Charlene Drew Jarvis, President of South-Eastern University, Washington, D.C. and formerly a member of the D.C. City Council; E. Ethelbert Miller, poet and Director of the African American Resource Center, Howard University; A. J. Verdelle, novelist and essayist; and Deborah Willis, photographer, historian, professor, and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. More