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Hinton, Milt. Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008)

Written by Nzingha on March 14, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs. Milt Hinton, David G. Berger, Holly Maxson, foreword by Clint Eastwood, Vanderbilt University Press, January 2008, 384 pages, 260 illustrations,
11 x 9.5 inches, ISBN: 978-0-8265-1574-2, Cloth w/ CD, $75.00.
I was born in Mississippi…the year was 1910..we moved up to Chicago…and I never went back [...]

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Harris, Lyle Ashton. Blow Up (Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2008)

Written by Myra on February 22, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up. Essays by Cassandra Coblentz, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, and Kwame Anthony Appiah, Introduction by Susan Krane.  Conversation with Senam Okudzeto, Gregory R. Miller & Co., June 2008, 50 color and 25 black and white images, Paperback (linen cover), ISBN: 978-0-9743648-9-6, US $50.00.

For many the title Blow Up refers to Michelangelo Antonioni’s [...]

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Thomas, Hank Willis. Pitch Blackness (Aperture, 2008)

Written by Danielle on December 8, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Pitch Blackness. Hank Willis Thomas, Aperture, October 2008, 128 Pages, ca. 125 four-color images, 8×10 inches (20×25 cm), ISBN: 978-1-59711-072-3, Hardcover, $35.
On February 2, 2000, Songha Thomas Willis was shot to death outside a Philadelphia nightclub. He was 27 years old. The takeaway? A $400 gold chain. It’s the story [...]

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  • Life After Death: Interviews with artists September 3, 2010
    The exhibition is down, unfortunately. h/t Daily Hussy, via Tayari Jones’ blog […]
  • I know I’m just fostering him, but… September 3, 2010
    …he’s a sweet little guy, even though he sneakily took his opportunity to get on the sofa when I wasn’t looking (boy, my decor looks busy in this picture!) and I didn’t have the heart to oust him. I’d better watch it or I’m going to become a dog-blogger. […]
  • A Developing Story… September 3, 2010
    Thanks to Eliza for initiating this conversation with me and publishing it at http://www.adevelopingstory.org—I do go on in it but I stand by all of it! […]