4 saints in 3 acts : a snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s
Patricia Allmer (Editor), John Sears (Editor), Photographers' Gallery (Host institution)
Explores Virgil Thomason's 1934 opera Four Saints in Three Acts, focusing on the hitherto neglected significance of photography in documenting the opera and its all-African American cast, and examining the roles of fashion, dance, literature, and music in the opera's popular success; includes photographs by Lee Miller, Carl Van Vechten, George Platt Lynes, White Studio and others
Print Book, English, 2017
Manchester University Press ; In collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery, Manchester, London, 2017