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(More customer reviews)Abe Hirschfield was a genius with lithographs. I loved the bare simplicity of his artwork in this book. He captured the spunk and spirit of Harlem in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
His book contains exquisite line drawings of Black characters one might find on the streets of Harlem; getting plastered in its speakeasies; stomping at the Savoy on a Saturday night doing the Lindy Hop or the Boogie Woogie; or buying a smoke from the reefer man and asking God forgiveness come Sunday morning in a storefront church.
In this book, most of his lithographs have a companion piece--usually a short story, but sometimes a song or a poem. There's a great story by Zora Neale Hurston written the slang of the day complete with slang definitions. Once I read it, I felt I knew how people looked and communicated back then.
Hirschfield created a wonderfully lush, colorful vision of Harlem. Thank You Abe.
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