This event is hosted by Gramercy Books.
Join several of the authors and editors of Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories That Changed The World for this special Black History Month program. A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America from the Picturing Black History project, the book is a collaborative effort between Getty Images, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, and the History departments at The Ohio State and Miami Universities.
Registration is on Eventbrite. The purchase of Picturing Black History waives the $5 registration fee.
The Ohio State University Department of History, Miami University Department of History, King Arts Complex, Zora's House, and Maroon Arts Group are Gramercy’s Community Partners for this program.
Picturing Black History uncovers untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally significant moments. This beautiful collectible volume makes a thoughtful gift and is full of rousing, vibrant essays paired with rarely seen photographs that expand our understanding of Black history.
The book informs, educates, and inspires our current moment by exploring the past, blending the breadth and depth of Getty Images’s archives with the renowned expertise of Origins contributors and The Ohio State’s and Miami’s History departments, including Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas Breyfogle, and Steve Conn.
Created by a growing collective of professional historians, art historians, Black Studies scholars, and photographers and showcasing Getty Images’s unmatched collection of photographs, Picturing Black History embraces the power of visual storytelling to relay little-known stories of oppression and resistance, perseverance and resilience, freedom, dreams, imagination, and joy within the United States and around the world.
In collecting these new photographic essays, this book furthers an ongoing dialogue on the significance of Black history and Black life, sharing new perspectives on the current status of prejudice and discrimination bias with a wider audience. Picturing Black History uses the latest academic learning and scholarship to recontextualize and dispel prejudices, while uncovering, digitizing, and preserving new archival materials to amplify a more inclusive visual landscape.
"An astonishing work, Picturing Black History offers a trove of both famous and unseen photos with brief, poignant accompanying essays to show not only the centrality of Black people to American history but also how African Americans used the photographer’s lens to tell their own stories. The editors, authors, and Getty images have created a beautiful book that stands on its own as a work of art, a veritable museum in print.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
Treva B. Lindsey, PhD is a professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University, the co-founder of Black Feminist Night School at Zora's House, and the author two award winning books Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington DC and America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, grants, and awards, and her work has been featured in numerous outlets such as Time, MSNBC, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
Lorna Closeil is a Black feminist practitioner currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University. Her research interests include Black women’s literature, radical Black feminisms, and Black girlhood studies.
Melvin Barnes Jr. is a Program Officer at Ohio Humanities and received his PhD in History from The Ohio State University
Shawn Waldron is Getty Images' Curator of Print Sales and Exhibitions. He is the author of two monographs on the photographer Slim Aarons as well as a contributor to Picturing Black History.
Daniela Edmeier is a Managing Editor of Picturing Black History. She is a PhD Candidate in History at The Ohio State University, where she studies immigration, race and ethnicity, and settler colonialism in French Algeria.
