Enterprising Images: The Goodridge Brothers, African American Photographers, 1847-1922 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780814324516)

The story of the most prolific African American photographers in North America.

From its beginnings in York, Pennsylvania, in 1847, until the death of Wallace L. Goodridge in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1922, the Goodridge Brothers Studio was the most significant and enduring African American photographic establishment in North America. In Enterprising Images, John Vincent Jezierski tells the story of one of America's first families of photography, documenting the history of the Goodridge studio for three-quarters of a century. The existence of more than one thousand Goodridge photographs in all formats and the family's professional and personal activism enrich the portrait that emerges of this extraordinary family. Weaving photographic and regional history with the narrative of a family whose lives paralleled the social and political happenings of the country, Jezierski provides the reader with a complex family biography for those interested in regional and African American, as well as photographic, history.

Author: John Vincent Jezierski
ISBN-10: 0814324517
ISBN-13: 9780814324516
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2000
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.83lbs
Size: 11.29h x 8.76w x 0.98d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/1999 pg. 766
Library Journal 01/01/2000 pg. 96
Booklist 02/15/2000 pg. 1069
Choice 02/01/2001 pg. 1074