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Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985 Philip Brookman 9780300283501
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.93Featuring more than 100 artists, this landmark book charts the intricate connections between photography and the Black Arts Movement The Black Arts Movement brought together writers, filmmakers,... -
Black Photojournalism Charlene Foggie-Barnett 9780880390767
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £34.80A landmark survey of Black American photojournalism spanning 1945 to 1984, chronicling a critical period in the civil rights movements in the United States This volume presents work by 57 Black... -
Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England by Kirilka Stavreva 9780803295865
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Dramatic and documentary representations of aggressive and garrulous women, while often casting such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority, simultaneously... -
Short Course in Photography, A: Film and Darkroom Barbara London 9780134638850
RRP: £92.99Booksplease Price: £83.96For courses in the fundamentals of photography. Explores the fundamentals of photography A Short Course in Photography: Film and Darkroom, 10th Edition introduces readers to the fundamentals of... -
Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience. Kevin Young 9780847836697
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £31.29Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience showcases the potent role of visual art in African American history. Featuring Black artists working in a range of media, from photography to sculpture to... -
Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Christine Kim
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £29.80A celebratory visual chronicle of the many ways in which Black Americans have used portraiture to envision themselves Spanning over two centuries from around 1800 to the present day, Black... -
Moving Stones: About the Art of Edmonia Lewis Jennifer DeVere Brody 9781478033639
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £77.00Moving Stones explores the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the nineteenth century. Blending biography, history, and... -
Lucy and Bonbon by Don LePan
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £13.68Probing the question: "Are we ready to accept a human-ape hybrid in our midst?"What if humans were able to reproduce with other great apes? What would the hybrid offspring look like? Act like? Think... -
Moving Stones: About the Art of Edmonia Lewis Jennifer DeVere Brody 9781478038528
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Moving Stones explores the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the nineteenth century. Blending biography, history, and... -
On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination by Nicole R. Fleetwood 9780813565156
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography's role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the... -
Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art Nikki A. Greene 9781478026341
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32In Grime, Glitter, and Glass, Nikki A. Greene examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture... -
Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture by Shawn Michelle Smith 9780822333319
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £102.40Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of... -
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body by Barbara Thompson
Booksplease Price: £51.44Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks... -
Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture by Shawn Michelle Smith 9780822333432
Booksplease Price: £37.40Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of... -
Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence and the Location of the Caribbean Figure by Roshini Kempadoo 9781783482214
Booksplease Price: £45.30The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and... -
Dark Designs and Visual Culture by Michele Wallace 9780822334132
Booksplease Price: £39.87Michele Wallace burst into public consciousness with the 1979 publication of Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, a pioneering critique of the misogyny of the Black Power movement and the... -
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today by Denise Murrell
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.60An ambitious and revelatory investigation of the black female figure in modern art, tracing the legacy of Manet through to contemporary art This revelatory study investigates how changing modes of... -
Eye Dreaming: Photographs by Anthony Barboza Anthony Barboza 9781606067833
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.74This richly illustrated book is the first monograph to explore the prolific career of the celebrated photographer Anthony Barboza. Anthony Barboza (b. 1944) is a celebrated artist and writer who has... -
Pacifique Sarah L. Taggart 9781552454473
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26LAMBDA LITERARY OCTOBER'S MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ LITERATURE49th SHELF TOP 22 BOOKS OF 2022Is love real if the beloved isn't? Girl, Interrupted meets Rebecca in this taut tale of love and madness ... -
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum Françoise Vergès 9780745349619
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.25'A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition' - Publishers Weekly The Western museum is a battleground - a terrain of ideological, political and economic contestation. Almost everyone... -
Brown Beauty: Color, Sex, and Race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II by Laila Haidarali 9781479875108
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £70.37Examines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II. Between the Harlem Renaissance and the end of World War II, a... -
Brown Beauty: Color, Sex, and Race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II by Laila Haidarali 9781479802081
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Examines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II. Between the Harlem Renaissance and the end of World War II, a... -
Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015 by Celeste-Marie Bernier 9780520286535
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £56.44The first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the lives and works of over fifty painters, photographers,... -
North of Dixie - Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South Mark Speltz 9781606065051
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma-leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South... -
Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor by Tanya Sheehan 9780271081106
Booksplease Price: £48.35In this volume, Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and... -
Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor by Tanya Sheehan
Booksplease Price: £11.03In this volume, Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and... -
Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs Karin L. Stanford 9781606069899
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.67During a 1963 speech to a crowd of nearly forty thousand at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the question of how Angelenos could contribute to the civil... -
Black Love Letters by Cole Brown 9781638931201
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £13.85As seen on ABC's The View * One of W magazine's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023"We reserve this space for our humanity in all of its fond, ironic, elated, grief-stricken, confused glory . . ... -
As We Rise: Contemporary Photography from the Black Atlantic by Dr. Kenneth Montague
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10As We Rise presents an exciting compilation of photographs from African diasporic culture. With over one hundred works by Black artists from Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, the United States,... -
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing by Lesly Deschler Canossi 9789462702868
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £25.12Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her... -
Are the Arts Essential? by Alberta Arthurs 9781479812622
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.22A timely and kaleidoscopic reflection on the importance of the arts in our society In the midst of a devastating pandemic, as theaters, art galleries and museums, dance stages and concert halls... -
How a Woman Becomes a Lake by Marjorie Celona
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56* 'A surefire hit' Jo Spain * 'Masterful' Karen Thompson Walker * 'I could not put it down' Eliza Robertson *THIS DAY NEVER HAPPENED.YOU HEAR ME?By a frozen lake, ten-year-old Jesse waits for his... -
How a Woman Becomes a Lake by Marjorie Celona 9780349011370
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'A highly original, beautifully crafted literary thriller' IRISH INDEPENDENTBy a frozen lake, ten-year-old Jesse waits for his father. It's New Year's Day, and his dad promised a fresh start. But... -
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art by Kellie Jones 9780822348733
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.00A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kellie Jones grew up immersed in a world of artists, musicians, and writers in Manhattan's East Village and absorbed in black nationalist ideas... -
Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply by Dawoud Bey 9781477317198
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.17Winner, Lucie Photo Book Prize / Photography Book of the Year, 2019Recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," Dawoud Bey has created a body of photography that masterfully portrays the... -
Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity by Maurice O. Wallace
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.57Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions... -
African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album by Ronald S. Coddington 9781421406251
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £20.14A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war... -
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American by Celeste-Marie Bernier 9781631494291
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.83Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass's birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this "tour de force" (Library Journal, starred review)... -
The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America Sarah Lewis 9780674238343
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.08Chicago Tribune, 10 Best Books of 2024A Hyperallergic Best Book of the YearThe award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United...