Sara Blair, Harlem Crossroads

Harlem Crossroads is a detailed study of how photography has influenced black writers in the 20th century to an extent not previously acknowledged.Sara Blair traces the history of black subject photography to the Harlem riots of 1935 and 1943 that produced a riot of images (5) and eventually, a cultural photographic representation of New York City’s most famous black neighborhood.Having established how Harlem came to be a focus of particular interest to a number of photographers, Sara Bla...