Working Together by Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop. Published by Duke University Press.
So many of the images profoundly resonate today, almost as though no time has passed over the last half of a century. Louis Draper’s portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer, who had been arrested and severely beaten by police in 1963 for her work on voter registration, stares back at us wise and resilient. The voices of photographers Draper, Anthony Barboza, Adger Cowens, Danny Dawson, Al Fennar, Ray Francis, Herman Howard, Jimmie Mannas, Herb Randall, Herb Robinson, Beuford Smith, Ming Smith, Shawn Walker, and Calvin Wilson, we should all know. Includes texts by Deborah Willis and John Edwin Mason.
Honorable Mentions:
ZAIDO By Yukari Chikura
Larissa Leclair is the Founder of the Indie Photobook Library now at the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University.
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