(PHOTOGRAPHY) CHEERS MICHAEL Songs of My People

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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) CHEERS, MICHAEL. Songs of My People. Thirteen 11 x 14, and 5 8 x 10 gelatin silver prints * a copy of Songs of My People, the book they are collected in. Little Brown, 1992, photographs, various datesshould be seen

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Michale Cheers is head of the Photojournalism department at San Jose State University. The book, Songs of My People was a group effort by three photographers: Michael Cheers, Eric Easter and Dudley M Brooks. The photography covers a great deal ground, and is, in the words of the dust jacket blurb, an historic photo documentary of the world of African Americans. Gordon Parks in his introduction describes the effort as 'an inward look. The heart, not the eye seems to have determined the content of the photographs. What their eyes saw was one thing, what their hearts perceived was yet another.'