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Blurb titles
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 [...]
Sara Blokland, et al. Sideways (Atousa Bandeh in cooperation with the Fonds BKVB, 2010)
Sideways. Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi ( 1968 IR) Sara Blokland (NL 1969), Bassam Chekhes (Syrië 1965) and Katrin Korfmann (D 1971), Nickel van Duijvenboden (NL 1981) Tina Rahimy (IR 1975). Published by Atousa Bandeh in cooperation with the Fonds BKVB, IABN: 978-90-76936-24-6, € 29,95, to order send an e-mail to: info@atousabandeh.com.
Publication Sideways Reflections on changing contexts [...]
Sara Blokland. The Police Band of Surinam (Van Zoetendaal, 2010)
The police band of Surinam. Photography by Sara Blokland, initiative and research by Afra Jonker/Boa Productions, design and picture editing by Willem van Zoetendaal, commissioned by Boa Producties, Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam, ISBN / EAN 978-90-72532-06-0.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject (Duke, 2010)
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject. Kristen Pai Buick, Duke University Press, January 2010, 44 pages, 51 illustrations, incl. 18 in color, 0-8223-4247-2, ISBN13 978-0-8223-4247-2, Cloth – $89.95, 0-8223-4266-9, ISBN13 978-0-8223-4266-3, Paperback – $24.95.
From the publisher:
Child of the Fire is the first [...]
Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White (TCU Press, 2009)
Bob Ray Sanders. Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White, foreword by Don Carleton. TCU Press, 2009, 216 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches, 178 black and white photographs, ISBN 978-0-87565-381-5, cloth.
In 1934, the year Calvin Littlejohn came to Fort Worth, the city was a sleepy little burg. This was the Jim Crow [...]