Text engl. - Other edition: Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers. New York: Writers and Readers Publ. 1993. - The author has attempted to identify and show the work of as many notable black women photographers as possible. 34 women are pictured, described, and represented by a few photographs each. (More are listed in the end matter.) The photographs selected are occasionally remarkable but more often are ordinary portrait, news, and documentary images. The essays are often disjointed and disappointingly short on information about the photographers themselves; too often, advocacy displaces real substance. Still, this survey and collection of brief biographies, the second to appear recently (see Deborah Willis-Thomas, Black Photographers 1840-1940), helps lay the foundation for in-depth research and will appeal to readers with a special interest in the subject. (Adapted from Kathleen Collins, Library of Congress. In: Library Journal, Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.) - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 08.2009.