A Century of Black Photographers 1840-1960

Author: Valencia Hollins Coar            
Publisher: Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Year: 1983   
Pages: 192
ISBN: 978-0911517002

This publication accompanied a seven-city touring exhibition was by the Rhode Island School of Design, with Valencia Hollins Coar of the Black Woman Collaborative in Chicago as curator. Her primary purpose, Miss Coar has said, was to show that Black photographers have always been in the photographic mainstream, exhibiting and winning prizes as early as the 1850's, and that to omit them and their contributions from the history of photography in this country is willful.