Overview
The first photobook to center the perspectives of young Black girls.
Picturing Black Girlhood is the first major publication to consider how photographs produce pleasure, pride, and power for Black girls. This volume presents images by iconic artists, including LaToya Ruby Frazier, Carrie Mae Weems, and Lorraine O’Grady, alongside works created by Black girls and Black genderqueer youth to stage a dynamic, multigenerational dialogue that centers girls as experts and theorists of their own lives.
Featuring more than one hundred photographs from the late 1960s to the present, this landmark publication invites readers of all ages to consider beauty, sexuality, loss, community, and protest—and shows how Black women and girls use the camera to advance a more equitable vision of photography.
Copublished by Aperture and Documentary Arts
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