Monthly Archives: September, 2008
The powerHouse Submissions Programme
I saw this today and checked it out; powerHouse Books, “the future beyond art books,” as their site intriguingly says, has published all four of Jamel Shabazz’s books and quite a few black authors including photographer Lauri Lyons (as author). In fact, their overall author list is rather impressive if celebrity-heavy. They also publish lots [...]
New 81 Press Contributor/Reviewer
Welcome Dana Nzingha Tomlinson, http://zingha.wordpress.com/, who will be contributing book reviews to 81Press.net. I’m so excited!
You can read Dana’s bio here.
keeping it all clear
As I work on the design of this site I am realizing that it’s difficult to separate the 81 Press titles from all of the other titles by other publishers that I want to also highlight here. I’ll have to work that out…stay tuned…
Black Farmers in America by John Ficara (University Press of Kentucky, 2006)
Black Farmers in America. Photographs by John Francis Ficara, Essay by Juan Williams, University Press of Kentucky, March 2006, 144 pages, 10½ x 11¼, ISBN:978-0-8131-2399-8, cloth, US $49.95.
From the publisher’s site:
John Francis Ficara spent four years photographing black farmers across America, witnessing firsthand the difficulties faced by families who simply want to [...]
