The Native Face American Shirt

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Combining poignant portraits of newly minted soldiers with extensive letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, and other records, The Black Civil War Soldier pays tribute to heroes largely obscured. Here, Vogue speaks to Willis about the The Native Face American Shirt moreover I love this volume.

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Vogue: Can you take me back to when the The Native Face American Shirt moreover I love this subject of the Black Civil War soldier first grabbed you? Because I suppose it would have dovetailed with some of your work around emancipation? Deborah Willis: It started when I was a curator, working at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as well as at the Smithsonian, when collectors and family members who had photographs wanted me to acquire them for both institutions. I was fascinated because we rarely see images of soldiering, basically, with the backdrop of portraits. But going further back, I grew up in Philadelphia, and we used to go to Gettysburg as children with my parents, but when I attended school, rarely was there a discussion about Black Civil War soldiers. So that combination of growing up, working as a curator, being involved with collectors, and looking at family albums—stories started to develop that really piqued my interest. [I later] did a book called Reflections in Black, and I found Black photographers who photographed Civil War soldiers. And then the book Envisioning Emancipation that I copublished with Barbara Krauthamer moved me forward to say that this is a story that needs to be told, expanded upon, shared—and that’s what kept me interested. I’ve always been fascinated with the image, as you can imagine.

1. Length is measured from the highest point on the collar down to the bottom hem. 2. Width is measured across the body of the shirt under the armpits, one way. 3. Sleeves are measured from center back to hem.