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- 23.5 x 30.5 cm
- 152 pages
- 978-1-59711-365-6
This issue features two covers:
Richard Avedon, Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, with his father, Martin Luther King, Baptist minister, and his son, Martin Luther King III, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22, 1963 and Awol Erizku, Untitled (Forces of Nature #1), 2014
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“Vision & Justice”
Addresses the role of photography in the African American experience, guest edited by Sarah Lewis, distinguished author and art historian.
FRONT
Guest Editor’s Note
Sarah Lewis
Collectors: The Jazz Musicians
Contributions by Wynton Marsalis, Ingrid Monson, Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran, and Somi
Curriculum
By Hank Willis Thomas
Redux
Bridget R. Cooks on Harlem on My Mind (1968)
BACK
Object Lessons
Thelma Golden on James VanDerZee, Christmas Morning, 1933
WORDS
Frederick Douglass’s Camera Obscura
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Black Photographers Annual
By Carla Williams
Black Lives, Silver Screen
Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young in Conversation
Love Visual: A Conversation with Haile Gerima
By Sarah Lewis and Dagmawi Woubshet
Picturing Obama
By Maurice Berger
Carrie Mae Weems: Around the Kitchen Table
Reflections by Dawoud Bey, Jennifer Blessing, Katori Hall, Robin Kelsey, and Salamishah Tillet
PICTURES
Awol Erizku
Introduction by Steven Nelson
Toyin Ojih Odutola
Introduction by Claudia Rankine
Lorna Simpson
Introduction by Margo Jefferson
Annie Leibovitz
Introduction by Nell Painter
Deborah Willis
Introduction by Cheryl Finley
Sally Mann
Introduction by John Stauffer
Jamel Shabazz
Introduction by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Devin Allen
Introduction by Aaron Bryant
Leslie Hewitt
Introduction by Rujeko Hockley
Lyle Ashton Harris
Introduction by Vince Aletti
Radcliffe Roye
Introduction by Garnette Cadogan
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Introduction by Teju Cole
Dawoud Bey
Introduction by Leigh Raiford
Deana Lawson
Introduction by Thomas J. Lax
WEB EXCLUSIVES
Ming Smith and the Kamoinge Workshop
LeRonn P. Brooks
She Walked in Beauty
Susan Fales-Hill
Jamel Shabazz in Conversation with Michaela Angela Davis
dream hampton in Conversation with Geena Rocero
Nicole R. Fleetwood on Prison Portraits
Renée Mussai and Victor Peterson II on Black Chronicles and Rock Against Racism
Deana Lawson in Conversation with Nikki A. Greene
Vision, Justice, and Cinema: A Roundtable with Franklin Leonard, Catherine Gund, and Shola Lynch
Sheila Pree-Bright in Conversation with Naima J. Keith
Emily Raboteau on Murals and Social Justice
Brian Wallis on James Baldwin and Richard Alvedon’s Norhing Personal
