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James Allen

Born

The United States

Genre

Photography, History

James Allen is an American antique collector, known in particular for his collection of 145 photographs of lynchings in America, published in 2000 with Jon Lewis as Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. The collection includes images of the lynching in 1911 of Laura and Lawrence Nelson, in Okemah, Oklahoma, and of Leo Frank in 1915 near Marietta, Georgia.

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Without Sanctuary: Lynching...

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
by

James Allen (Collector),

John Lewis (Foreword),

Leon F. Litwack (Introduction)

4.64 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions

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