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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 [...]
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits (Smithsonian, 2007)
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits. Deborah Willis, USMTH (Smithsonian); 1 edition, July 2007, 176 pages, 12.3 x 9.2 x 1.1 inches, ISBN-10: 1588342425/ ISBN-13: 978-1588342423, hardcover, US $35.
African American Vernacular Photography (Steidl/ICP, 2006)
African American Vernacular Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection, Steidl/ICP, March 2006, 120 pages, 11 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches, ISBN-10:3865212255; ISBN-13: 978-3865212252, US $25.
From the publisher’s site:
This book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same title on view at the International Center of Photography, presents an extraordinary group of images of African Americans [...]
