Everyday Beauty features fifty-five images that pay visual tribute to the extraordinarystyle and aesthetic of African American figures, famous and anonymous,by highlighting themes of self-representation, resilience, and civic engagement.The photographs depict people across generations showing how staged and candidmoments can be both beautiful and precious. African Americans have longrecognized the power of images and used them to document moments?from themonumental to everyday. This latest volume in the critically acclaimed Double Exposure series presentsa range of photographic styles by celebrated photographers?such as AnthonyBarboza, Charles ?Teenie? Harris, Addison Scurlock, Louis H. Draper, DevinAllen (2017 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship recipient), Arthur Rothstein,and Dawoud Bey (awarded the MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or \"Genius Grant\" in 2017)?as well as snapshots by unknown amateurs. There are remarkableimages by African American photographer John Johnson?whose plateglass negatives offer a rare glimpse into the everyday life of African Americansin Lincoln, Nebraska before World War I?and studio portraits by the CalvertBrothers of Nashville, Tennessee, and William J. Kuebler, Jr. of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, from the early twentieth century.