Overview
The first photobook to center the perspectives of young Black girls in photography by legendary artists and young image makers.
Picturing Black Girlhood, edited by Zoraida Lopez-Diago, Salamishah Tillet, and Scheherazade Tillet, is the first major publication to consider how photographs produce pleasure, pride, and power for Black girls. Telling an essential story about American culture, 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 an introduction by the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Salamishah Tillet, this landmark publication invites readers of all ages to consider beauty, sexuality, loss, community, and protest. By focusing on how Black girls experiment with form and advance photographic technologies, Picturing Black Girlhood recognizes their contributions to contemporary art, especially in portraiture, documentary, and digital media. Original essays and poems by leading Black feminist scholars, critics, and youth leaders also show 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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