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Evocative new photographs of Connecticut by celebrated photographer William Earle Williams provide insight to the stories of Black American history_x000D__x000D_Their Kindred Earth gathers images of Black Connecticut's historic sites by…
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Deborah Willis
Longlisted for the Giller Prize
A Scientific American Best Staff Read of 2023
A funny, poignant, and page-turning debut novel that skewers billionaire-funded space travel in a love story of…
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What if the person you loved was on another planet?
Maurice Berger
The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Book Series-featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. Created…
I took [Watson] into this woman's office and there was the American flag, and I stood her up with her mop hanging down, with the American flag hanging down, Grant…
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Deborah Willis, Kevin Merida
With nearly 150 color photographs, KAMALA follows Vice President Kamala Harris's ascent from District Attorney in California to the DNC's Great Hope for taking the White House in 2024.
In his first published monograph, Tyler Mitchell, one of America’s distinguished photographers, imagines what a Black utopia could look like.
Amy Sherald's work, life, and significance for American art, as revealed in her powerful figurative paintings of Black subjects
This collection brings together African American writers, scholars and film-makers to analyze and respond to photographic images of blacks through history. The personal issues embedded in family portraits, news photographs…
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In Malevolent Nurture, Deborah Willis explores the dynamics of witchcraft accusation through legal documents, pamphlet literature, religious tracts, and the plays of…
Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the Hottentot Venus ; reflections on the representation of a black female icon
Includes full-page illustrations of works by more than fifty internationally recognized photographers
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize * One of Scientific American's Best Staff Reads of 2023
A funny, poignant, and page-turning debut novel that skewers billionaire-funded space travel in a…
The emotional range and depth of [Willis’s stories], the clarity and deftness, are astonishing. -Alice Munro
Tucked away in the dusty halls of the Smithsonian archives and nearly forgotten by most historians, black culture is a vast, complex, interconnected web of different people, trends, and lifestyles…
A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers
Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their…
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A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries
Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum
Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a…
Dr Deborah Willis
Evocative and passionately written, this debut short story collection–a finalist for Canada’s Governor General’s Award–explores emotional and physical absences, the ways in which people leave and are left, and whether…
‘Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory is the companion publication to the FotoFocus biennial exhibition that is scheduled for Fall 2022 and will run at the…
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Deborah Willis,Barbara Krauthamer
What freedom looked like for black Americans in the Civil War era
Deborah Willis,Emily Bernard
A visual biography of Michelle Obama that puts her fame into cultural and historical context. With nearly 200 photographs, it captures Obama’s dramatic transformation from working mother to First Lady…
Rhea Combs,Deborah Willis
The first volume of Double Exposure, a major new series of books based on the remarkable photography archive held by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture…
Deborah E Willis
Abuse, suicidal thoughts, alcoholism, drug abuse, and promiscuity were the themes of the author’s life. Haunted by her past, she saw no future until God turned a life of agony…
Very few would dare to compare any person, past or present, to the great 19th century preacher, C.H. Spurgeon. However, this author defies the masses and presents to the world…
Deborah Howerton-Willis
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them Ephesians 2:10 Next in the God’s Perfect Creation…
Natasha L. Logan
Am I the only one who has problems eating chicken, watermelon, and bananas in front of white people? This book assembles a series of questions posed to black men, by…
Deborah L. Blake
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Keely Orgeman
A close look at a new installation by renowned contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas that marks the first time she has engaged with early American history
Essays and photographs from two workshops organized by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and held at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to discuss the fifteen daguerreotypes by…
Frederic Roberts
Chronicling stories of beauty and grace, work and family, spirituality and devotion, while redefining photographic documentation and representation. This book features photographs which explore India and its links to the…
It seems Grand Canyon is a safer place now that Fanny is in a vault in a top security location until a solution can be found to destroy her evil…
The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an…
Javier Escudero Rodriguez
Pierre Fatumbi Verger is considered one of the most outstanding photographers of the twentieth century as well as a recognized researcher in the field of African Diaspora and religion studies…
In the tradition of Robert Frank’s photographs of the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and William Eggleston’s 1976 Election Eve series, 100 photographs offer an intimate political and personal…
Coincides with an exhibition of Brathwaite’s work, 2019.
Samuel W. Black,Regennia N. Williasm
Mines Allen E. Cole’s exceptional midtwentieth-century photographic chronicle of African American life and will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in American history, as well as specialists in African…
Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina. As an itinerant portraitist working during the rise of Jim Crow, Mangum photographed a clientele that was racially…
Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the world. This edited collection covers a diverse range of experiences, practices and representations across international…
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