This Powerful Collection Highlights The Importance Of Snapshots In Black American Life: As Tools To Challenge Stereotypes, And As A Way To Document Family And Culturethoughtfully Illustrated, This Volume Highlights A Selection Of Photographs Of African American Family Life Between The 1970s And The Early 2000s-pictures That Were Lost By Their Original Owners And Then Found By The Artist Zun Lee On A Street In Detroit In 2012, Marking The Beginning Of The Fade Resistance Collection Of More Than 4,000 Polaroids. Lee Describes The Collection As An Important Record Of Black Visual Self-representation And A Means To Reflect The Way Black People Saw Themselves On Their Terms-without The Intention Of Being Seen, Or Judged, By Others. To Lee, These Powerful Photographs Are An Expression Of Black Life Mattering.