African American Women (Double Exposure)

Volume 3 of Double Exposure highlights NMAAHC's rich collection of photographs of African American women, some of whom are cultural icons. This volume demonstrates the dignity, joy, heartbreak, commitment, and sacrifice of women of all ages and backgrounds, with photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Beverly Conley, Robert Galbraith, Ernest C. Withers, Wayne F. Miller, P.H. Polk, Joe Schwartz, and Milton Williams.

Aligned to Common Core Standards

Natasha Trethewey was the United States Poet Laureate 2012–2013. She has written an original essay and reprinted two poems for this title.

Kinshasha Holman Conwill is the deputy director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

• Through the African American Lens: Double Exposure
• Civil Rights and the Promise of Equality (Double Exposure)
• Fighting for Freedom: National Museum of African American History and Culture (Double Exposure)
• Picturing Children (Double Exposure)
• Pictures with Purpose: Early Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Double Exposure)
• Everyday Beauty (Double Exposure)
• Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives
• The Photographs of Gordon Parks: The Library of Congress (Fields of Vision)
• Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present
• National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Souvenir Book