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A Journey in Two Directions by Nanna Debois Buhl

…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 [...]

Honickman First Book Prize

(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 [...]

Books by HUGEAUX

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

New title by Charmaine A. Nelson

My new book, Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art is out this month with Routledge, NYC. Please find the flyer which has a code for a 20% discount. I would appreciate it if you would please encourage your college and university libraries to get a copy.
I will be having a book launch at Paragraphe [...]

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  • Review of Abdellatif Kechiche’s Venus Noire September 10, 2010
    An MK2 production in collaboration with France 2 Cinema, with the participation of Canal Plus, France Televisions, Le Centre National de la Cinematographie et de l’image animee, Cinecinema, in association with Soficinema 5, Artemis Prods. (International sales: MK2, Paris.) Produced by Marin Karmitz, Nathanael Karmitz, Charles Gillibert. Directed, writt […]
  • Ugh: UPDATED September 10, 2010
    The Fashion Bomb really did her research on this one. Definitely worth checking out her post: Just in Time for Fashion Week: Proenza Schouler Debuts Offensive Short Film “Act da Foolâ€� I generally don’t like to repost from other sites, but I couldn’t let this one pass. Tambay at Shadow and Act posted today about Harmony [...] […]
  • Life After Death: Interviews with artists September 10, 2010
    The exhibition is down, unfortunately. h/t Daily Hussy, via Tayari Jones’ blog […]