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UPDATED: Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot” (Temple, 2010)

Written by Carla on February 23, 2011 — Leave a Comment

Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot” has been selected for the 2011 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies published in 2010. Congratulations, Deb, and all the contributors!!
Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot”. Edited by Deborah Willis. Temple University Press, 288p, ISBN 978-1-4399-0205-9, $34.95.
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What are your top photo books?

Written by Carla on January 23, 2011 — Leave a Comment

I recently attended an opening and talk for the Kamoinge Group with member Collette Fournier. During her talk she spoke about an influential photography book in her life (more from her on that forthcoming, I hope!) so I wanted to implement a new feature on the blog. I’m asking artists and writers:
What are your top [...]

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Reviews of Venus and Posing Beauty in the IRAAA

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

Obviously, once I commence the reviews on this site I cannot review any projects to which I’ve contributed, but I can point to reviews elsewhere. The current issue of the International Review of African American Art (23:2, 2010) includes reviews of Deborah Willis’ Posing Beauty and Black Venus 2010: They Called Her Hottentot, as well [...]

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Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950 (Virginia, 2009)

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

Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950. Tosha Grantham, with a preface by Deborah Willis. Essays by Isolde Brielmaier and Tumelo Mosaka, University of Virginia Press, October 2009, 160 pages, 9 x 10, 110 color and b&w illustrations, Paper ISBN 978-0-917046-89-6, $35.00.
From the publisher:
Photography and video are powerful tools for shaping perception and effecting change, as is [...]

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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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  • Taking a Break February 6, 2012
    Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
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