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D.A.P. Fall 2010 catalog

Written by Carla on September 3, 2010 — Leave a Comment

I just went through the Distributed Art Publishers Fall 2010 New Books on Art and Culture. There are only a couple of titles by black photographers, but several that include black artists and curators. Here are the titles of interest:
Aperture 200, Aperture, Fall 2010. Edited by Melissa Harris. Includes the feature Heroes of the Storm: [...]

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Palimpsest: New Journal Announcement and CFP

Written by Carla on August 5, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Website and Submission Guidelines Information: www.vanderbilt.edu/aframst/palimpsest
Inquiries: PalimpsestJournal@vanderbilt.edu
Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their communities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds.  A partnership between Vanderbilt University’s African American and Diaspora Studies Program and the [...]

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FotoFest 2010 Biennial Catalogue – Contemporary U.S. Photography

Written by Carla on July 23, 2010 — Leave a Comment

From Red Dog News:
Covering two volumes, with more than 300 photographers featured and 507 pages and 382 compelling images, as well as an introduction by Charlotte Cotton, this is one catalogue you may want to add to your table-top collection.
Five curatorial essays on contemporary photography serves to complete the exhibitions in the volumes, and give voice to the illustrations.
Some of [...]

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A Journey in Two Directions by Nanna Debois Buhl

Written by Carla on June 23, 2010 — Leave a Comment

…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 [...]

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New title by Charmaine A. Nelson

Written by Carla on June 14, 2010 — Leave a Comment

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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