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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America [Hardcover]

Twin Palms Publishers (Author)

4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

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Hardcover: 212 pages
Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers (Feb 1 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0944092691
ISBN-13: 978-0944092699
Product Dimensions: 26.5 x 19.9 x 3.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #329,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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These images make the past present. They refute the notion that photographs of charged historical subjects lose their power, softening and becoming increasingly aesthetic with time. These images are not going softly into any artistic realm. Instead they send shock waves through the brain, implicating ever larger chunks of American society and in many ways reaching up to the present. They give one a deeper and far sadder understanding of what it has meant to be white and to be black in America. And what it still means. -- New York Times, January 13,2000

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5.0 out of 5 stars early photo collector must!, Nov 20 2002

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If you are a collector of early photos,and you also collect books on early photo collections,this book is a must as an extremely important part of your collection.It contains several pages of readable text on some noted lynching events in small but sufficient enough detail,descriptions of plates and their photo types in the back,and what other early historical photo collection book are you going such a wealth of this type of portrait?I rate this one up there with Stanley Burn's sleeping beauty(another important photo collector book).There is no doubt that this book is a must!Just get it!

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5.0 out of 5 stars What Man can do to Man, April 30 2002

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Unbelievable. The editor has done a wonderful job of giving insight into Amerikkka's treatment of Afrikans during the Nadir(1877 to 1901) and up into the 1960s. Fully detailed, the editor brings these "Lost Souls" back to life with stunning descriptions of their "crimes" and their tragic deaths. If one wants to gain further insight into the lynch party and their ritualistic purpose, read Orlando Patterson's Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries, Book 2, The Feast of Blood. Thank You.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Worth looking at, but poor organization, April 17 2002

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I agree with a previous reader about the layout of the book. The pictures are basically on the first half of the book and then you have to do a hunt and search to the back half to find the accompanying story. This takes away so much of the books value and I hardly every have anything bad to say about a book. It's a shame this wasn't organized better.
The content is extraordinary,however and I had no idea what a lynch-happy society had existed in U.S. history. So much of our history we don't learn in school!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Page Layout Disaster
After reading this book cover-to-cover, I can only agree with the other reviewers with respect to content. Read more

Published on Sep 20 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be brought to everyone's attention.
As one of the reviewers said "This book should be in every African-American home". True, but more importantly I think it should be in every WASP household and everyone... Read more

Published on Nov 26 2000 by Gloria Coffey