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Aperture Book Sale through 8.3.10

Written by Carla on July 4, 2010 — Leave a Comment

(Aperture publishes Zwelethu Mthethwa, Hank Willis Thomas, and Dawoud Bey)

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VSW Photo-Bookworks Symposium begins tomorrow, July 1

Written by Carla on June 25, 2010 — Leave a Comment

(I am the moderator for this symposium next week; I hope to see some site visitors there!)

D.A.P.|Artbook and Visual Studies Workshop present:

ARTBOOK @ VSW

A temporary art bookstore at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York.

Opening as part of the 2010 Photo-Booksworks Symposium at VSW
July 1-3, 2010 and accompanied by a program of artists [...]

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A Journey in Two Directions by Nanna Debois Buhl

Written by Carla on June 23, 2010 — Leave a Comment

…and ARTBOOK IS OPENING A TEMPORARY BOOKSTORE!

ARTBOOK @ VSW will be a temporary art book store located within Visual Studies Workshop, a nonprofit arts center with a graduate program for photography, film/video, and artists’ books in Rochester, NY.  ARTBOOK specializes in new books on art, photography, architecture, design and critical theory.  Founded in 2008 as [...]

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Honickman First Book Prize

Written by Carla on June 17, 2010 — Leave a Comment

(Thanks for the reminder of this, Orville! Wouldn’t it be amazing if a black photographer won this? Most of us don’t yet have that first book, so we’re all eligible. It isn’t due until September, so start working on that application now!)
First Book Prize Overview
The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and The Honickman [...]

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Books by HUGEAUX

Written by Carla on June 17, 2010 — Leave a Comment

I got an announcement this morning for a new title by the photographer HUGEAUX, Northeastern Florida Wetlands, which led to a link with what seems to be 6 self-published titles. I’ll try to start acquiring them for review but in the meantime you can check them out here: http://www.hugeaux.com/photographybooks.htm

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  • Call for Papers on the Intellectual History of Black Women July 30, 2010
    The Black Women’s Intellectual and Cultural History Collective (BWICH) is seeking paper submissions for a broad-ranging conference on black women’s contributions to black thought, political mobilization, creative work and gender theory. We are interested in work on any time period that explores black women as intellectuals across a broad geography inclu […]
  • How Howard Got His History Back July 30, 2010
    A young DJ stumbled on a warehouse cache and reunited a barrier-breaking photographer with some 500 lost works. Read the story here: http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/howard-simmons-photographer-dave-mata-found-photos/Content?oid=1770313&storyPage=1#mce_temp_url# […]
  • Only 40 (or so) hours to go…UPDATED July 30, 2010
    Thanks again to all of my backers! By Delphine Fawundu-Buford In order for this project to be successful, we have to raise $3,830. in 40 hrs. I noticed that we have very few backers on the 5 and 10 dollar levels – of course the higher levels are driving the donations but I think that a mixture [...] […]