Staff Picks: Books on Black Artists

Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition

Published by Redstone Press.
Introduction by Jacqueline Francis, Stephen G. Hall. Foreword by David Adjaye. Contribution by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

How W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of Black lives and the inequities of race in America

PUBLISHER
Redstone Press

BOOK FORMAT
Flexi, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color / 54 bw.

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Pub Date 10/29/2019
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Bodys Isek Kingelez

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited with text by Sarah Suzuki. Text by David Adjaye, Chika Okeke-Agulu, et al.

Made from quotidian materials, Kingelez’s sculptures evoke visionary architectures

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 10.5 in. / 144 pgs / 90 color.

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Pub Date 5/22/2018
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Charles White: Black Pope

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Text by Esther Adler.

The Chicago-born artist Charles White (1918–79) was celebrated during his lifetime for depictions of African-American men, women and children that acquired the name “images of dignity. White’s draftsmanship, his direct address of the social and political concerns of his time, and his commitment to media that gave his art wide circulation established him as a major artist, and one with significant influence both on his contemporaries and on later generations.

Beginning with White’s early days as an artist in the Chicago of the 1930s and ’40s, moving through his time spent developing his craft in New York in the late 1940s and ’50s, and closing with his final decades as a revered figure in Los Angeles, Charles White: Black Pope explores the artist’s practice and strategies through consideration of key works. It devotes particularly close examination to his late masterwork Black Pope (Sandwich Board Man)," in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. By creating visually compelling, ideologically complex works that engage audiences on many levels, White established himself as a key figure of his time, one whose work continues to resonate today."

Esther Adler is Assistant Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 10.5 in. / 64 pgs / 35 color.

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Pub Date 10/24/2017
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Common Wealth

Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Edited with text by Lowery Stokes Sims. Text by Dennis Carr, Janet L. Comey, Elliot Bostwick Davis, Aiden Faust, Nonie Gadsden, Edmund Barry Gaither, Karen Haas, Erica E. Hirshler, Kelly Hays L'Ecuyer, Taylor L. Poulin, Karen Quinn.

The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over the last 400 years. From enslaved craftspersons to contemporary painters, printmakers and sculptors, African American artists have created a wealth of artistic expression that addresses common experiences, such as exclusion from dominant cultural institutions, and confronts questions of identity and community. This generously illustrated volume gathers more than 100 works of art in a variety of media by leading figures from the nineteenth century to the present—among them, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Lois Mailou Jones, Gordon Parks, Wifredo Lam, Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon and Kerry James Marshall—alongside many others who deserve to be better known, including artists from the African diaspora in South America and the Caribbean. Arranged thematically and featuring authoritative texts that provide historical and interpretive context, Common Wealth invites readers to share in a rich outpouring of art that meets shared challenges with individual creative responses.

PUBLISHER
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 145 color.

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Pub Date 1/27/2015
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ISBN 9780878468157 TRADE
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Ellen Gallagher: Accidental Records

Published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
Text by Adrienne Edwards, Philip Hoare.

Accidental Records includes new paintings and drawings by Ellen Gallagher (born 1965) that continue her exploration of the complex histories of the Black Atlantic and the afterlives of the Middle Passage. Widely associated with a resurgence in this diasporic critical space, Gallagher has developed her own genre of history painting which makes us question our geographies. The slowly layered surfaces of her work become a kind of reckoning, the way sailors mark their locations at sea, determined to return. Alongside views of Gallagher’s artworks and portraits of the artist working in her studio, texts are included by Adrienne Edwards, curator at Performa and the Walker Art Center, and Philip Hoare, a writer whose books include Leviathan or, The Whale and The Sea Inside. The book accompanies Gallagher’s solo show at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles.

PUBLISHER
Hauser & Wirth Publishers

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 100 pgs / 34 color / 5 bw.

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Pub Date 1/23/2018
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Faith Ringgold

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Melissa Blanchflower, Natalia Grabowska, Melissa Larner. Text by Michelle Wallace. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

An affordable introduction to the quilts, paintings and posters of Faith Ringgold, a preeminent chronicler of Black life in America

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 160 pgs / 61 color / 2 bw.

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Pub Date 1/21/2020
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Jack Whitten: Odyssey

Sculpture 1963–2017

Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co..
Text by Katy Siegel, Kelly Baum, Jack Whitten, Richard Shiff, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kellie Jones. Interview with Courtney Martin.

"Whitten's objects in carved wood and found materials revisit and reclaim the forms, rituals and spirituality of African sculpture." –Roberta Smith, New York Times

PUBLISHER
Gregory R. Miller & Co.

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 192 pgs / 161 color.

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Pub Date 6/12/2018
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Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited by Leah Dickerman, Elsa Smithgall. Text by Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Spears Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Crystal Williams, Kevin Young.

Lawrence's landmark series on African American migration in context

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 77 color / 25 bw.

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Pub Date 2/28/2017
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Basquiat's "Defacement"

The Untold Story

Published by Guggenheim Museum.
Text by Chaédria LaBouvier, Nancy Spector, J. Faith Almiron, Greg Tate. Contributions by Luc Sante, Carlo McCormick, Jeffrey Deitch, Kenny Scharf, Fred Braithwaite, Michelle Shocked, et al.

Police brutality, racism, graffiti and the art world of the early-1980s Lower East Side converge in one painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat

PUBLISHER
Guggenheim Museum

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 168 pgs / 60 color.

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Pub Date 7/23/2019
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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Louis Prat, Susanne Reichling.

A superbly produced retrospective on the luminous career of Jean-Michel Basquiat

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10 x 12.25 in. / 224 pgs / 334 color.

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Pub Date 11/30/2010
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Xerox

Published by Hatje Cantz/Nahmad Contemporary.
Edited with text by Dieter Buchhart. Text by Christopher Stackhouse, Eric Robertson.

Copy, paste: Basquiat's collaged Xerox paintings presage today's sampling aesthetics

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz/Nahmad Contemporary

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11 x 12 in. / 200 pgs / 67 color.

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Pub Date 10/8/2019
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Joe Minter: To You Through Me

The Beginning of a Link of a Journey of 400 Years

Published by Institute 193/Tinwood.
Introduction by Phillip March Jones.

A manifesto-guidebook to one of the American South's most astounding art environments

PUBLISHER
Institute 193/Tinwood

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 136 pgs / 32 color.

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Pub Date 9/17/2019
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member: Pope.L, 1978–2001

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited with text by Stuart Comer. Text by Naomi Beckwith, Mark H.C. Bessire, C. Carr, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Adrienne Edwards, Malik Gaines, Danielle A. Jackson, Adrian Heathfield, EJ Hill, Thomas J. Lax, André Lepecki, Yvonne Rainer, Martine Syms, Martha Wilson.

An absurdist provocateur and brilliant interventionist, Pope.L is a seditious force in contemporary American art

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color.

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Pub Date 11/19/2019
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Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me

Published by Wexner Center for the Arts.
Foreword by Sherri Geldin. Text by Nicole R. Fleetwood, Michael Goodson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Antwaun Sargent.

Deconstructing the charged connections between sitter, artist and viewer

PUBLISHER
Wexner Center for the Arts

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 40 color.

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Pub Date 11/20/2018
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Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts

Published by Badlands Unlimited.
By Aruna D'Souza.

"An exploratory case study in institutional racism as it has manifested in the New York City art world” —Brooklyn Rail

PUBLISHER
Badlands Unlimited

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 160 pgs.

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Francis Kéré: Radically Simple

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited with text by Andres Lepik, Ayça Beygo.

Collaborating with residents, Burkina Faso architect Francis Kéré places social and historical needs at the heart of his design thinking

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 120 color.

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Pub Date 4/25/2017
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Making Africa

A Continent of Contemporary Design

Published by Vitra Design Museum.
Edited by Mateo Kries, Amelie Klein.

"An extraordinary in-depth view of the dynamo that is contemporary African design." –Rachel Pulfer

PUBLISHER
Vitra Design Museum

BOOK FORMAT
Flexi, 9.5 x 13 in. / 345 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date 6/23/2015
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ISBN 9783931936525 TRADE
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90 Degrees of Shade

100 Years of Photography in The Caribbean

Published by Soul Jazz Books.
Edited by Stuart Baker. Foreword by Paul Gilroy.

Considering the complex history and unique identity of the Caribbean islands

PUBLISHER
Soul Jazz Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 12 in. / 200 pgs / 150 color / 150 bw.

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Pub Date 11/30/2014
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ISBN 9780957260030 TRADE
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Black Fire! New Spirits!

Images of a Revolution: Radical Jazz in the USA 1960-75

Published by Soul Jazz Books.
Edited by Stuart Baker.

Vintage portraits of the giants of 1960s Free Jazz, from John Coltrane to Miles Davis

PUBLISHER
Soul Jazz Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12.5 x 12.5 in. / 192 pgs / 75 color / 125 bw.

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Pub Date 5/31/2014
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Dancehall

The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture

Published by Soul Jazz Books.
By Beth Lesser. Edited by Stuart Baker.

This definitive study of the 1980s Jamaican Dancehall scene features hundreds of exclusive photographs and an accompanying text that capture a vibrant, globally influential and yet rarely documented culture that has mixed music, fashion and lifestyle since its inception.

PUBLISHER
Soul Jazz Books

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 216 pgs / 400 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/24/2017
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Freedom, Rhythm & Sound

Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965–83

Published by Soul Jazz Books.
Edited by Gilles Peterson, Stuart Baker.

“A remarkable book” –The New Yorker

“If there can be such a thing as a revolutionary coffee table book, Freedom Rhythm & Sound is it—a chance to wallow in the Afrocentric visual language of the non-mainstream black jazz vinyl of this extraordinary fertile and creative period.” –Eye

“Like the uncompromising music they represent, all the covers broadcast a sense of bold, brazen ideology” –Pitchfork

“For decades, no one was sure how to refer to this extraordinary music. Calling it ‘fire music’ does justice to its incandescent spirit, still burning from the pages of a book that preserves the memory of a special time.” --The Guardian

PUBLISHER
Soul Jazz Books

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 192 pgs / 400 color.

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Pub Date 8/22/2017
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ISBN 9780957260061 TRADE
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Get Out

The Complete Annotated Screenplay

Published by Inventory Press.
By Jordan Peele. Text by Tananarive Due.

Jordan Peele’s celebrated screenplay combines horror and dark humor to reveal the terrifying realities of being Black in America

"Blending race-savvy satire with horror to especially potent effect, this bombshell social critique from first-time director Jordan Peele proves positively fearless."
–Peter Debruge, Variety

"An exhilaratingly smart and scary freak out about a black man in a white nightmare."
–Manohla Dargis, New York Times

"A major achievement, a work that deserves, in its own way, to be viewed alongside Barry Jenkins' Moonlight as a giant leap forward for the possibilities of black cinema; Get Out feels like it would have been impossible five minutes ago."
–Brandon Harris, New Yorker

PUBLISHER
Inventory Press

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 4.25 x 7 in. / 224 pgs / 150 bw.

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Pub Date 11/26/2019
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ISBN 9781941753286 TRADE
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Michael Jackson: On the Wall

Published by National Portrait Gallery.
Edited with text by Nicholas Cullinan. Text by Margo Jefferson, Zadie Smith.

Icon as muse: Michael Jackson in art, from Warhol to KAWS

PUBLISHER
National Portrait Gallery

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10.75 x 11 in. / 252 pgs / 120 color.

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Pub Date 8/28/2018
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ISBN 9781855147119 TRADE
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Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art

Published by Reel Art Press.
Edited by John Duke Kisch, Tony Nourmand. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Text by John Duke Kisch, Peter Doggett. Afterword by Spike Lee.

A visual feast, these images recount the diverse and historic journey of the Black film industry from the earliest days of Hollywood to the present day

PUBLISHER
Reel Art Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 320 pgs / 270 color / 30 bw.

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Pub Date 10/6/2014
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ISBN 9781909526068 TRADE
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Soul of a Nation

Art in the Age of Black Power

Published by D.A.P./Tate.
Edited with text by Mark Godfrey, Zoé Whitley. Contributions by Linda Goode Bryant, Susan E. Cahan, David Driskell, Edmund Barry Gaither, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Samella Lewis.

African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers

PUBLISHER
D.A.P./Tate

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 203 color / 33 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/26/2017
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ISBN 9781942884170 TRADE
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Gordon Parks: Collected Works

Study Edition

Published by Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Paul Roth. Text by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Deborah Willis, Maurice Berger, Barbara Baker Burrows, Paul Roth, Gordon Parks.

A self-taught polymath, Parks chronicled the African-American experience and retold his own personal history

PUBLISHER
Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 5 vols, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 1,084 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/23/2017
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Gordon Parks: Muhammad Ali

Published by Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation/The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Paul Roth, April Watson. Foreword by Peter W. Kunhardt Jr., Julián Zugazagoitia. Introduction by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Text by Gerald Early, April Watson.

With fantastic previously unseen images, this book represents a collaboration between two heroes of Black American culture

PUBLISHER
Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation/The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 176 pgs / 5 color / 110 bw.

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Pub Date 2/11/2020
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Gordon Parks: The Flavio Story

Published by Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Edited with text by Paul Roth, Amanda Maddox. Foreword by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Flávio Pinheiro, Timothy Potts. Text by Sérgio Burgi, Beatriz Jaguaribe, Maria Alice Rezende de Carvalho, Natalie Spagnol.

The extraordinary story of one Life photo-essay by Gordon Parks and its impact

PUBLISHER
Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 300 pgs / 50 color / 150 bw.

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Pub Date 5/22/2018
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Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument

Published by Steidl.

In 1948, Gordon Parks began his professional relationship with Life magazine that would last 22 years. For his first project, he proposed a series of pictures about the gang wars that were then plaguing Harlem, believing that if he could draw attention to the problem then perhaps it would be addressed through social programs or government intervention. As a result of his efforts, Parks gained the trust of one particular group of gang members and their leader, Leonard Red Jackson, and produced a series of pictures of them that are artful, emotive, poignant, touching and sometimes shocking. From this larger body of work, 21 pictures were selected for reproduction in a graphic and adventurous layout in Life magazine. At each step of the selection process--as Parks chose each shot, or as the picture editors at Life re-selected from his selection--any intended narrative was complicated by another curatorial voice. Featuring contact sheets, proof prints and the published Life article, Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument traces this editorial process and parses out the various voices and motives behind the production of the picture essay. Co-published by The Gordon Parks Foundation and the New Orleans Museum of Art.

PUBLISHER
Steidl

BOOK FORMAT
Slip, clth, 5 vols, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 136 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date 10/1/2013
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Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem

Published by Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation/The Art Institute of Chicago.
Foreword by Peter W. Kunhardt Jr., Douglas Druick. Introduction by Matthew S. Witkovsky, John F. Callahan. Text by Michal Raz-Russo, Jean-Christophe Cloutier.

Parks and Ellison collaborated on two historic photo-essays, now published in full for the first time

PUBLISHER
Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation/The Art Institute of Chicago

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 128 pgs / 79 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/28/2016
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ISBN 9783958291096 TRADE
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Jamel Shabazz: Sights in the City, New York Street Photographs

Published by Damiani.
Introduction by Marla Hamburg Kennedy. Interview by Cheryl Dunn.

Two decades of black-and-white New York street photography

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11.5 x 9.15 in. / 160 pgs / 70 color / 50 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/25/2017
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ISBN 9788862085229 TRADE
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Jill Freedman: Resurrection City, 1968

Published by Damiani.
Edited by Steven Kasher. Text by Jill Freedman, John Edwin Mason, Aaron Bryant.

The climax of Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 12 in. / 176 pgs / 141 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/27/2018
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ISBN 9788862085830 TRADE
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Lee Friedlander: Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

Published by Eakins Press Foundation.
Text by Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins.

Early work from Lee Friedlander capturing a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement

PUBLISHER
Eakins Press Foundation

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 8.5 in. / 88 pgs / 58 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/15/2015
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ISBN 9780871300713 TRADE
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Louisiana Medley: Photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick

Published by The Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
Edited by Kathryn E. Delmez. Text by Susan H. Edwards, Makeda Djata Best, Deborah Willis.

Three decades of African American life in and around New Orleans

PUBLISHER
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11 x 10.5 in. / 136 pgs / 94 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/22/2018
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Malick Sidibé: Mali Twist

Published by Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain / Editions Xavier Barral.
Text by André Magnin, Brigitte Ollier, Manthia Diawara, Robert Storr.

“Sidibé captured the dynamism and joy of a rapidly changing West Africa ... they all got dressed for Malick.” –Vogue

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Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain / Editions Xavier Barral

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Clth, 7.75 x 10.25 in. / 296 pgs / 276 bw.

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Pub Date 11/28/2017
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Muhammad Ali: Fighter's Heaven 1974

Photographs by Peter Angelo Simon

Published by Reel Art Press.
Foreword by D.A. Pennebaker.

In this previously unpublished photo-essay, the legendary boxer Muhammed Ali is captured up close and unguarded in the run-up to the "Rumble in the Jungle"

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Reel Art Press

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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 105 bw.

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Pub Date 8/23/2016
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Postcards from Africa

Photographers of the Colonial Era

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Text by Christraud M. Geary.

The complex history of imaging Africa, as seen in its postcard industry

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MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7.75 x 9.25 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color.

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Pub Date 9/25/2018
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Sanlé Sory: Volta Photo

Published by Steidl/The Art Institute of Chicago.
Edited with text by Matthew S. Witkovsky. Text by Antawan Byrd, Florent Mazzoleni.

“Rich people, poor people, religious people, artists, musicians, everyone could become a hero at [Sanle’s] Volta studio.” —Florent Mazzoleni, The New York Times

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Steidl/The Art Institute of Chicago

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Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 120 pgs / 100 bw.

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Pub Date 6/26/2018
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Sanlé Sory: Volta Photo 1965–85

Published by Reel Art Press/Morton Hill.
Introduction by Forent Mazzoleni.

Burkina Faso photographer Sory Sanlé (born 1943) started his career in 1960, the year his country (then named République de Haute-Volta) gained independence from France.

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Reel Art Press/Morton Hill

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 40 bw.

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Pub Date 9/26/2017
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Vincent Desailly: The Trap

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Nadine Barth. Text by Gucci Mane.

Trap culture: the hip-hop of the American South, documented in scenes of everyday Atlanta by Vincent Desailly

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 128 pgs / 51 color.

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Pub Date 1/28/2020
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30 Americans

Rubell Family Collection, Fourth Edition

Published by Rubell Museum.
Edited by Juan Valadez. Preface by Rubell Family. Text by Franklin Sirmans, Glenn Ligon, Michele Wallace, Robert Hobbs.

Showcasing an influential group of African American artists who have emerged as leading contributors to the contemporary art scene in the US and beyond

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Rubell Museum

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 224 pgs / 269 color.

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Pub Date 5/21/2019
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Among Others: Blackness at MoMA

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited with text by Darby English, Charlotte Barat. Text by Mabel O. Wilson, et al.

"Considers MoMA's complex history with black artists, black audiences, and art about blackness" –Victoria L Valentine, Culture Type

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 10.5 in. / 488 pgs / 300 color.

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Pub Date 8/20/2019
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Beyond Mammy, Jezebel & Sapphire

Reclaiming Images of Black Women

Published by Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.
Edited by Sigrid Asmus. Introduction by Jessica Hunter-Larsen, Megan Valentine. Foreword by Catherine M. Pears. Text by Heidi R. Lewis, Roland Mitchell, Takiyah Nur Amin, Velva Boles, Claire Garcia, Jean Gumpper, Kate Leonard, Venetria K. Patton, Sha'Condria Sibley, Karen Riley Simmons, Claudine Taaffe.

"Underscores the fallacious nature of stereotyped images and the thunderous power of myth, archetype, detail, metaphor, self-portrait, collage, and, most importantly, black women artists, to overcome them.” –Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post

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Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

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Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 79 pgs / 38 color / 9 bw.

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Pub Date 2/27/2018
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Four Generations

The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art

Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co..
Edited by Courtney J. Martin. Introduction by Mary Schmidt Campbell. Text by Christopher Bedford, Joost Bosland, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Andrianna Campbell, Alexis Clark, Nicholas Cullinan, Elvira Dyangani, Jacqueline Francis, Gary Garrels, Mark Godfrey, Thelma Golden, Jamillah James, Hannah Johnston, Eungie Joo, Norman L. Kleeblatt, Thomas J. Lax, Courtney J. Martin, Lucy H. Partman, Lawrence Rinder, James Rondeau, Katy Siegel, Franklin Sirmans, Philippe Vergne, Zoe Whitley. Jessica Morgan in conversation with Leonardo Drew, Jen Mergel with Shinique Smith, Courtney J. Martin with Mark Bradford & Charles Gaines, Gary Garrels with Kevin Beasley, Pamela Joyner & Alfred Giuffrid with Courtney J. Martin. Afterword by Pamela Joyner & Alfred Giuffrida.

The acclaimed overview of Black abstract art, now in an expanded edition with nearly 100 additional color plates

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Gregory R. Miller & Co.

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Hardcover, 8 x 10.25 in. / 528 pgs / 325 color.

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Pub Date 11/26/2019
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African Art

Published by Skira.
By Ezio Bassani.

An illustrated study of traditional and figurative art of Africa that reflects the continent’s rich artistic and cultural heritage. African Art explores the continent’s marvelous artistic achievements which share its roots with humanities origins. Sculpture has historically been the chief means of artistic expression. The human figure, whether real or symbolic, is almost the exclusive subject of African art. This vast world of African sculpture is the result of an evolutionary process, based on humanity’s rich history and diversity deriving from migrations, wars, and alliances. During the last century, the African continent has experienced radical transformations in the fields of social and political organizations, the economy and religions. Inevitably, new artistic forms are being established simultaneously with the globalization process and the creation of works for the art market, which retain less and less ties with those of the past. African Art is an exhaustive presentation of the traditional figurative arts of Africa and concisely explains their distinguishing historical, formal, symbolic and functional characteristics. A truly valuable source of inspiration for students, collectors, and travelers alike, this book is complete with a glossary and bibliography.

Ezio Bassani is an art historian and has written extensively on African art.

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Skira

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 12 in. / 380 pgs / 400 color.

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Pub Date 9/25/2012
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