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powerHouse Books tag sale

Written by Carla on June 7, 2010 — Leave a Comment

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Digitizing The Crisis – updated

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

Both the Modernist Journals Project and Google are digitizing the NAACP’s journal The Crisis.
Google is digitizing Harvard’s bound volumes of Crisis, but Harvard does not have a full print run of the magazine. The MJP staff [says] that Harvard has Vols. 10, 11, 15-18, and 21, 22. Those are the ones Google has done.
MJP has begun [...]

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Printed Matter warehouse sale

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

History of Photography special issue on photography in Africa

Written by Carla on April 25, 2010 — 2 Comments

History of Photography: Volume 34 Issue 2 is now available online at informaworldTM.
Special Issue: Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie and John Peffer
This new issue contains the following articles:
Peffer John, Editorial    Pages 115 – 118
Original Articles
Erin Haney, Film, Charcoal, Time: Contemporaneities in Gold Coast Photographs    Pages 119 – 133
Jürg Schneider, The Topography of the Early History of African [...]

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Blurb titles

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

Last year I was searching for titles by black photographers on Blurb.com. I knew of a couple (Keba Konte, Kwesi Abbensetts) but expected that there would be many about which I didn’t know. At the time, I did a subject search on their site and it didn’t yield any additional titles, by which I was [...]

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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 [...] […]