Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas

Author: Alan B. Govenar
Publisher: Texas State Historical Association
Year: 1996
Pages: 280
ISBN: 978-0876111536

African Americans have for the most part been absent from Texas's photographic history. Scholarly texts on photography rarely mention black Texans, and few museums have catalogued or displayed their work. Portraits of Community redresses this situation by presenting more than two hundred powerful images of black Texans taken by a group of little-known black photographers and includes deatiled interviews with the men and women behind the cameras. Alan Govenar, a writer, folklorist, photographer, and filmmaker in Dallas, has created a memorable book.