How Long to Read Picturing Black New Orleans

How Long Does it Take to Read Picturing Black New Orleans?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read Picturing Black New Orleans by Arthé A. Anthony

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The visual legacy of Florestine Perrault Collins, who documented African American life in New Orleans Florestine Perrault Collins (1895-1988) lived a fascinating and singular life. She came from a Creole family that had known privileges before the Civil War, privileges that largely disappeared in the Jim Crow South. She learned photographic techniques while passing for white. She opened her first studio in her home, and later moved her business to New Orleans’s Black business district. Fiercely independent, she ignored convention by moving out of her parents’ house before marriage and, later, by divorcing her first husband.  Between 1920 and 1949, Collins documented African American life, capturing images of graduations, communions, and recitals, and allowing her subjects to help craft their images. She supported herself and her family throughout the Great Depression and in the process created an enduring pictorial record of her particular time and place. Collins left behind a visual legacy that taps into the social and cultural history of New Orleans and the South.  It is this legacy that Arthé Anthony, Collins's great-niece, explores in Picturing Black New Orleans. Anthony blends Collins's story with those of the individuals she photographed, documenting the profound changes in the lives of Louisiana Creoles and African Americans. Balancing art, social theory, and history and drawing from family records, oral histories, and photographs rescued from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Anthony gives us a rich look at the cultural landscape of New Orleans nearly a century ago.  Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

How long is Picturing Black New Orleans?

Picturing Black New Orleans by Arthé A. Anthony is 227 pages long, and a total of 58,339 words.

This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Picturing Black New Orleans Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 18 minutes to read Picturing Black New Orleans aloud.

What Reading Level is Picturing Black New Orleans?

Picturing Black New Orleans is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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