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Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History (review)

Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History (review) 378 Biography 35.2 (Spring 2012) Cheryl Finley, Laurence Glasco, and Joe W. Trotter. Intro. Deborah Willis. Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P/Carnegie Museum of Art, 2011. 192 pp. 100 plates. ISBN 978-0822961741, $24.95. Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History, by Cheryl Finley, Lau- rence Glasco, and Joe W. Trotter, with an introduction by Deborah Willis, is a beautiful book. An oversized volume with striking black and white repro- ductions, the book includes three informative essays that introduce readers to the African American photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris’s life and work, situating his photographs within a broader history of mid-twentieth century photography, and contextualizing them within the cultural history of Har- ris’s hometown, Pittsburgh. Over the course of a career that spanned from the 1930s to the 1970s, Harris worked as a studio photographer, a commercial photographer, and a photojournalist, making close to 80,000 images. In Tee- nie Harris, Photographer, 100 large black and white plates represent the scope of Harris’s photographs, which document a wide spectrum of everyday Afri- can American life in Pittsburgh in the mid-twentieth century. Laurence Glasco’s contribution to the book, “An American Life, an Amer- ican Story: Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biography University of Hawai'I Press

Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History (review)

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Biography , Volume 35 (2) – Dec 5, 2012
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378 Biography 35.2 (Spring 2012) Cheryl Finley, Laurence Glasco, and Joe W. Trotter. Intro. Deborah Willis. Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P/Carnegie Museum of Art, 2011. 192 pp. 100 plates. ISBN 978-0822961741, $24.95. Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History, by Cheryl Finley, Lau- rence Glasco, and Joe W. Trotter, with an introduction by Deborah Willis, is a beautiful book. An oversized volume with striking black and white repro- ductions, the book includes three informative essays that introduce readers to the African American photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris’s life and work, situating his photographs within a broader history of mid-twentieth century photography, and contextualizing them within the cultural history of Har- ris’s hometown, Pittsburgh. Over the course of a career that spanned from the 1930s to the 1970s, Harris worked as a studio photographer, a commercial photographer, and a photojournalist, making close to 80,000 images. In Tee- nie Harris, Photographer, 100 large black and white plates represent the scope of Harris’s photographs, which document a wide spectrum of everyday Afri- can American life in Pittsburgh in the mid-twentieth century. Laurence Glasco’s contribution to the book, “An American Life, an Amer- ican Story: Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris and

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