A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936

Extraordinary photos that reveal the social, economic, and cultural realities of the Black South

A True Likeness showcases the extraordinary photography of Richard Samuel Roberts (1880–1935), who operated a studio in Columbia, South Carolina, from 1920 to 1935. He was one of the few major African American commercial photographers working in the region during the first half of the twentieth century, and his images reveal the social, economic, and cultural realities of the black South and docu...