Visual culture on the shelf
Explore documentary work, portraiture, music photography, cultural history, and illustrated records of pivotal communities and movements. Each listing includes edition details to help identify the right book.
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Hardcover · ISBN 9780944092699Twin Palms Publishers · 2000
A difficult historical record examining photographs of victims and the social conditions that enabled racial mob violence.
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Hardcover · ISBN 9781934429150Ammo Books · 2009
Bingham's photographs document the Black Panther Party during a 1968 magazine assignment and offer a close view of the organization.
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Hardcover · ISBN 9783958296190Steidl · 2020
A photographic study bringing together previously less-seen images from the creative encounter between Parks and Ali.
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Hardcover · ISBN 9783836572408Taschen · 2018
An expansive visual chronicle of soul, R&B, and funk artists during a defining decade in American music.
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Hardcover · ISBN 9788409038169Elemental Music · 2019
More than 150 color and monochrome images show jazz artists in clubs and distinctive outdoor settings across Southern California.
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Hardcover · ISBN 9783836542937Taschen · 2016
Claxton and Berendt traveled across the United States in 1960 to document jazz in performance spaces, streets, transit, and community life.
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Hardcover · ISBN 9781909526631Reel Art Press · 2019
Warren's decade-long record follows the London jazz club from its construction through performances by major artists.
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Paperback · ISBN 9781949467079Blair · 2020
A visual and historical account of Gullah life on Hilton Head Island, including language, customs, arts, foodways, and community continuity.
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Paperback · ISBN 9781459505568Formac Publishing · 2019
A documented history of Black Loyalists who arrived in Nova Scotia after the American Revolution and the communities that followed.
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Hardcover · ISBN 9780691203287Princeton University Press · 2020
An illustrated study of the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama and their place in American portraiture.
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Hardcover · ISBN 9780525541011TarcherPerigee · 2019
Photographs and contextual stories document everyday activity, official events, and public moments during the Obama administration.
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Hardcover · ISBN 9780991541843Cityfiles Press · 2019
Withers's extensive archive documents central people and events in the civil rights movement from the mid-1950s through the late 1960s.
View book detailsHardcover · ISBN 9781469654232University of North Carolina Press · 2020
Landscape photographs and research revisit ordinary-looking Southern locations connected to consequential civil rights history.
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Hardcover · ISBN 9781588346728Smithsonian Books · 2019
An illustrated account of African American participation in World War I and the ways wartime experience shaped later lives and communities.
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Hardcover · ISBN 9780756558789Compass Point Books · 2018
Written for younger readers, this volume uses historical photographs and accessible narration to explain peaceful lunch-counter protests.
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The selection connects photographic practice with music, public memory, portraiture, place, and social history.
Jazz, soul, R&B, and funk documented in performance, rehearsal, and portrait settings.
Photographic records that preserve evidence of communities, movements, and public life.
Books considering how notable subjects and cultural figures are represented through images.
Landscapes, streets, buildings, and archives that connect present-day places to layered histories.
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