Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness

Published by Aperture

With an emphasis on empowering her community members to hold space, Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness features over 90 self portraits highlighting rethinking and reclaiming history, and facing fears. Muholi’s photography is displayed against statements the author makes on the topics of resistance, identity and race. The author includes over 20 contributions from leading voices in the artistic community.

Teju Cole: FERNWEH

Published by Mack Books

Teju Cole focuses on a five year period from 2014 to 2019 photographing the beauty of Switzerland, re-contextualizing tourist vistas and scenic cultural monuments through the lens of the Modern Photographer. Fernweh translates from a German phrases as one longs to be some where different. Cole’s work brings a color look to the classic Alpine terrain creating an awe-inspiring view of a country mostly without human subjects.

Luke Gilford: National Anthem: America’s Queer Rodeo

Published by Damiani

Forever a Rodeo boy, raised by his father in Colorado, Photographer and Filmmaker Luke Gilford attended events sponsored by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. Connecting with the International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA), Gilford is drawn to IGRA’s commitment to creating safe spaces for discussions on race and gender preferences for the LGBTQ+ Community. Seeing the brave and confident attendees at IGRA events Gilford began his three year journey meeting new people and documenting the emerging subculture. For the reader who prefers Color Photography, traditional Medium Format Film and Dark Room Printing Techniques Enjoy National Anthem: America’s Queer Rodeo.

Harmony Korine & Juergen Teller: William Eggleston 414

Published by Steidl

This Photodocumentary on the American Road exhibits the transformative work of Harmony Korine and Juergen Teller on their journey from Memphis to Mississippi with William Eggleston and his son Winston Eggleston. William Eggleston 414 revisits many of William Eggleston’s famous photographs sharing stories along the road and portraying William as a confident and well groomed man. America’s heartland has breath-taking landscapes and peculiar people dotted across the countryside. Korine and Teller spontaneously combine historical motifs with the color and vibrancy of the modern landscape.

Magnum Artists: Great Photographers Meet Great Artists by Simon Bainbridge

Published by Laurence King Publishing

Simon Bainbridge provides a keen insight into the minds and working practices of brilliant Artists and age defining Photographers. Explore Robert Capa’s time with Matisse and Picasso, Thomas Hoepker’s work with Andy Warhol and de Kooning and Bonnard’s art with Henri Cartier-Bresson. This collections holds Photographs and stories highlighting the collaboration of Legendary Creatives. For the first time over 200 works organized together for a modern interpretation of time-honored classics.

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Shahidul Alam: The Tide Will Turn by Arundhati Roy, Vijay Prashad & Shahidul Alam

Published by Steidl

Shahidul Alam is a Photojournalist from Bangladesh. In his journey to uncover and expose the corruption of his government he gave an interview in August 2018 where he testifies to the mishandling of the student protests that had turned violent. Alam was arrested and imprisoner for over 100 days for speaking out against the governments reign of social injustice. While in prison, Alam wrote many letters to Arundhati Roy and inmate Sofia Karim. Stories and Photographs from all three Freedom Fighters serve to turn the tide in Bangladesh and highlight the important fight for Democracy and the future of Bangladesh.

Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial by Jessica Ingram

Published by The University of North Carolina Press

A Native to America’s South, Jessica Ingram knows first hand the victim’s of prejudice and racial discrimination. She aims in Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial to memorialize the present day location of prestigious moments in America’s Civil Rights Movement. Violent Atrocities and where they occurred are highlighted along side memories from the victim’s family and news clippings from local periodicals and excerpts from Official FBI reports. After over a decade in the field, Ingram transforms this complex history into a common landscape for the modern era.

THE PARAMETERS OF OUR CAGE by Alec Soth & C. Fausto Cabrera

Published by Mack Books

In his first of two released books in 2020, Photographer Alec Soth recalls that January Day in early 2020 when he received his first correspondence from inmate Chris Fausto Cabrera at the Minnesota Correctional Facility. As they began to communicate over the next nine months amidst a novel pathogen and growing unrest across America the two found common ground regarding their own history and influences. Their investigation into the power of art and photography begin asking the reader to rethink our current understanding of accountability and justice. A meaningful look into the life of an American Prisoner.

Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph

Published by Aperture

Ming Smith began her journey into the New York City Photography Scene in the 1970s. Her unique vision and expansive career has been developed through decades of perfecting her craft. In her new work “An Aperture Monograph” Smith brings new Energy and Beauty to her photography. Fast paced Street Photography, Theater, Dance, and her unique approach to the Silhouette are compelling across genres presenting a spectacular Vision into the world of an American Photographer. Unreleased Photographs accompany essays and interviews published with Aperture and Documentary Arts.

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Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957

Published by Steidl and The Gordon Parks Foundation

In 1957, as the first African American Staff Photographer for Life Magazine, Gordon Parks, set off on his six-week journey to bring a unique view of Poverty, Crime and Humanity to his readers from the Streets of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. Parks, well know for his trail-blazing blaxploitation films like Shaft (1971), shook audiences with his eight page essay originally published as “The Atmosphere of Crime” and now for the first time, the secret world on the fringes of society can be seen in Color featuring Photographs by Gordon Parks never seen before. Parks reveals a complex society, an American Culture of vivid and empathetic imagery.