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Affrilachia
Testimonies
Chris Aluka Berry
The first book of its kind, Affrilachia: Testimonies is an inspired historical artifact that honors, represents, and celebrates the proud people of color whose history and existence has greatly contributed to the broad tapestry of Appalachia.
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Captioning the Archives
A Conversation in Photographs and Text
Lester Sloan
In this father-daughter collaboration, Lester opened his archive of street photography, portraits, and news photos, and Aisha interviewed him, creating rich, probing, dialogue-based captions for more than one hundred photographs.
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David Hammons
Day’s End
Published to commemorate David Hammons’s (b. 1943) public art project Day’s End, located in New York City, this book documents the sculpture and offers broader context into Hammons’s enigmatic work.
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Dream in the Rhythm
Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMa Collection
Grace Wales Bonner
Dream in the Rhythm–Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection is an artist’s book created by the London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner as “an archive of soulful expression.”
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Floss
Roger Erickson
FLOSS comprises a collection of monographs showcasing retrospective photographs by Roger Erickson, highlighting Hip Hop and Rock’n Roll music artists from the 1990s through the 2020s.
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Gordon Parks
Born Black : A Personal Report on the Decade of Black Revolt, 1960-1970
Gordon Parks
Originally published in 1971, Gordon Parks’ Born Black was the first book to unite his writing and his photography and also the first to provide a focused survey of Parks’ documentation of a crucial time for the civil rights and Black Power movements.
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Personal Vision
Photographs
Adger W. Cowans
Master American photographer Adger Cowans’s predominantly black-and-white photography is collected in this monograph of original images taken over the past forty years.
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Race Stories
Essays on the Power of Images
Maurice Berger
The first title in Aperture’s Vision & Justice Series-featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture.
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Revolution Is Love
A Year of Black Trans Liberation
Qween Jean
In June 2020, activists Qween Jean and Joela Rivera founded the Stonewall Protests, weekly actions centering Black trans and queer identities that took place across New York City.
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Teenie Harris, Photographer
Image, Memory, History
Cheryl Finley
Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of Art With an introduction by Deborah Willis. The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908-1998).
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Wash Day
Passing the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair to the Next Generation
Tomesha Faxio
A visual celebration of natural Black hair that highlights the powerful connection between mothers and their children during their wash day rituals.