{"product_id":"kinship-community-selections-from-the-texas-african-american-photography-archive-9781597115636","title":"Kinship \u0026 Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCelebrating the rich history of photography made by and for Black communities in Texas.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKinship \u0026amp; Community\u003c\/i\u003e presents an inspiring example of collective self-representation from the final decades of official segregation in the United States. With more than 150 images of everyday Black life--created by Black photographers for Black communities across Texas--this collection celebrates a proud but overlooked regional culture while testifying to the power of photography as a social tool. These photographers, typically operating small businesses that provided portraiture, promotional images, and event documentation, worked with their communities to develop an enduring vision of hope and uplift. Many also contributed photos to newspapers, magazines, and civil rights organizations, sometimes focusing on political leaders and protests. But their primary subject was the everyday expression of a vibrant and self-sufficient Black culture--an exhilarating achievement in the wider context of entrenched racial oppression. Completing the book is a vivid new photographic essay by Rahim Fortune that takes up the archive's legacy and places it firmly in the present tense. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopublished by Aperture and Documentary Arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFleetwood, Nicole R.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicole R. Fleetwood \u003c\/b\u003eis the Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. A MacArthur Fellow, she is a writer, curator, and art critic interested in Black art, cultural history, aesthetics, photography, and documentary studies. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMarking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and she curated an exhibition of the same name for MoMA PS1. She was also the guest editor of \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's Spring 2018 issue \"Prison Nation.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWallis, Brian:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Wallis\u003c\/b\u003e is executive director at Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), Kingston, New York. He was deputy director and chief curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, from 2000 to 2015. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eImagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Vernacular Photography\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and \u003ci\u003eOnly Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self\u003c\/i\u003e (2003).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGordon-Reed, Annette:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnette Gordon-Reed \u003c\/b\u003eis the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Juneteenth\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003e\"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs\" Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), and \u003ci\u003eRace on Trial: Law and Justice in American History\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). Her 2008 book \u003ci\u003eThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family \u003c\/i\u003ereceived the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in History.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160370082066,"sku":"9781597115636","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_949dc10d-506e-40c9-a20c-5f49852c0c42.jpg?v=1775056155","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kinship-community-selections-from-the-texas-african-american-photography-archive-9781597115636","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}