Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America silas-finch december 2010

december 2010

Essay by Leonard Feather

This book is the first comprehensive selection of Jeff Burton's work in pornography which began in the 1980s with his portraits and stills for pornographic video boxes

On the rocky coast of Maine

motion pictures and sound recording extended for more than thirty years until his death in the spring of 1978

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America silas-finch december 2010Edited and with text by James Allen. Additional text by John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, and Hilton Als. "Many people today, despite the evidence, will not believedon't want to believethat such atrocities happened in America not so very long ago. These photographs bear witness to an American holocaust." Congressman John Lewis The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 Black Americans between 1882 and 1950. Many times, a photographer was present