Category Archives: Book Reviews
Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009)
Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles, M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00.
(Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.)
Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-artist and arts [...]
Hinton, Milt. Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008)
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 [...]
Harris, Lyle Ashton. Blow Up (Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2008)
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 [...]
Thomas, Hank Willis. Pitch Blackness (Aperture, 2008)
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 [...]
