Art & Photography
Afrosurf
Discover the untold story of African surf culture in this glorious and colorful collection of profiles, essays, photographs, and illustrations.AFROSURF is the first book to capture and celebrate the surfing culture of Africa. This unprecedented collection is compiled by Mami...
$40.00
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
Publisher: New York University Press A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiersThough both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of...
$35.00
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
Publisher: ABRAMS In words and photographs, Power to the People is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded 50 years ago in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words are Seale’s, with contributions by other former party members;...
$42.00
I Am a Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of James Meredith...
$40.00
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST ART & PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS 0F 2018AN NPR AND PITCHFORK BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 PICKONE OF TIME'S 25 BEST PHOTOBOOKS OF 2018NEW YORK TIMES, ASSOCIATED PRESS, WALLSTREET JOURNAL, ROLLING STONE, AND CHICAGO SUN HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE PICKThe perfect gift...
$40.00
Bob Marley: Portrait of the Legend
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications In honor of Bob Marley's seventy-fifth birthday, this glorious oversize book collects more than 150 photographs that celebrate the life and influence of the forefather of reggae and one of the greatest musical and sociopolitical icons...
$55.00
Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter
Publisher:Versify Pub Date: 08/17/2021 Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter is a broad and powerful exploration of the history of Black Lives Matter told through photographs, quotes, and informative text by New York Times best-selling authors Veronica Chambers and Jennifer...
$21.99
Barack Before Obama: Life Before the Presidency
Publisher: Ecco Press A People Pick of the Week One of USA Today’s 5 Books Not to Miss One of Forbes’ 5 Books to Read in December A personal, intimate photographic celebration of President Barack Obama, featuring over 200 rare and never-before seen images from...
$39.99
Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty
Publisher: St. Martin's Press THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.From Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the dynamite husband and wife duo behind CreativeSoul Photography, comes GLORY, a photography book that shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children.Featuring a foreword by Amanda SealesWith...
$30.00
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." ―Zadie SmithNew York Times Book Review • Editors' Choice A supremely talented young critic’s essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival...
$27.95
The Soul of a Nation Reader: Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960-1980
A comprehensive compendium of artists and writers confronting questions of Black identity, activism and social responsibility in the age of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, based on the landmark traveling exhibition What is “Black art”? This question was posed...
$39.95
Kara Walker: A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be
A beautifully designed panorama of Kara Walker’s works on paper―all reproduced for the first time This gorgeous 600-page volume, with a printed cloth-over-paper binding, provides an exciting opportunity to delve into the creative process of Kara Walker, one of the...
$65.00
Carrie Mae Weems
Essays and interviews explore the work of Carrie Mae Weems and its place in the history of photography, African American art, and contemporary art. In this October Files volume, essays and interviews explore the work of the influential American artist...
$45.00
You Next: Reflections in Black Barbershops
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books “A stirring work . . . images meet text to convey a most handsome portrait of Black barbering in America as a revered cultural practice. Honest, intelligent, poignant—You Next is brilliant from cover to cover.” —Maurice Wallace, Rutgers...
$26.99
We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity
Publisher: Smithsonian Books A richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their lives and their communities after they returned home.This stunning book presents artifacts, medals, and photographs alongside powerful essays...
$19.95
Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH Textures synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the diaspora, Black hair is here addressed...
$39.95
Revolution in Black and White: Photographs of the Civil Rights Era by Ernest Withers
Publisher: Cityfiles Press Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers of the civil rights era. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the civil rights movement―from the Emmett Till trial in...
$49.95
Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
Publisher: Running Press Adult The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.The...
$35.00
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
“A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear.” -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative
$30.00
The Women Who Changed Art Forever: Feminist Art - The Graphic Novel
Supplier: Laurence King These women changed art forever - told in colourful graphic novel form, this is the story of four pioneers of feminist art: Judy Chicago, Faith Ringold, Ana Mendieta, and the Guerilla Girls.Each made their mark in their...
$19.99