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Monthly Archives: September, 2008

The powerHouse Submissions Programme

Written by Carla on September 25, 2008 — Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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New 81 Press Contributor/Reviewer

Written by Carla on September 22, 2008 — Leave a Comment

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.

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keeping it all clear

Written by Carla on September 15, 2008 — Leave a Comment

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…

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Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs (Amistad, 2008)

Written by Carla on September 11, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs. Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida, Amistad, October 2008, 160 pages, 10 x 8 x 0.6 inches, ISBN-10: 006173309/ ISBN-13: 978-0061733093, hardcover, US $26.95.
Book-signings:
Thursday, October 30, 5-7pm
Saturday, November 1, 2-4pm
Lecia Gallery – NYC
Oskar Barnack Room
670 Broadway
New York City 10012
(212) 777-3051
leicaphoto@aol.com
Product Description
Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic [...]

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Black Farmers in America by John Ficara (University Press of Kentucky, 2006)

Written by Carla on September 10, 2008 — Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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