When Nichelle Gainer perused coffee table books of glamorous men and women, she saw something missing.

"I didn't see Dorothy Dandridge," Gainer says, nor other well-dressed black men and women of Hollywood's Golden Age and beyond.

"I wanted Black Vintage Glamour, so I just had to make it," she says. Gainer originally started a Tumblr and now her discoveries are included in a coffee table book of the same name.

In Vintage Black Glamour, Gainer focuses not just on the style of her subjects, but their substance - including their contributions to art, music and other pursuits.

She spoke to the BBC about her book.

Produced for the BBC by Felicia Barr.