Books selected by Jill Chisnell (Art, Architecture & Design Librarian), Kristen Heath (Music & Catalog Librarian), and Ashley Werlinich (English & Drama Librarian).
Crowns: My Hair, My Soul, My Freedom
Each portrait in this project recognizes and honors women's inventive power and beauty while celebrating, at the same time, their social endurance and cultural memory - the triumph of biology and genetics.
Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara
Diana Markosian's Santa Barbara recreates the story of her family's journey from post-Soviet Russia to the U.S. in the 1990s.
Fazal Sheikh and Teju Cole: Human Archipelago
For more than 25 years Fazal Sheikh has highlighted the plight of displaced people and refugees around the world. He has photographed people driven from their homes by war as well as those upended by the redrawing of national borders and the reassertion of racial and ethnic divisions. Sheikh has also made sublime photographs of landscapes altered by political and environmental crises.
Female Photographers Org: The Body Issue
A visual dialogue about bodies and how they are perceived in media has been undertaken by the Female Photographers Org collective.
The Journey: New Positions in African Photography
An exciting glimpse into contemporary African photography, with 17 young artists from all corners of the continent.
Latinx: Photography in the United States : A Visual History
Through individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present, Elizabeth Ferrer introduces readers to Latinx portraitists, photojournalists, and documentarians and their legacies.
Masahisa Fukase : Sasuke
Featuring tipped-on cover images, this gorgeously made book is arranged in four chapters, organized around the chronology of Fukase's life with his cats.
Michael Sherwin: Vanishing Points
Michael Sherwin locates and photographs significant sites of indigenous American presence, including sacred landforms, earthworks, documented archaeological sites and contested battlegrounds.
Nadine Ijewere: Our Own Selves
A celebration of identity and individual human beauty, this vibrant monograph is the first book dedicated to fashion photographer Nadine Ijewere--the first Black woman photographer to land a cover of Vogue in the magazine's 125-year history.
Namsa Leuba: Crossed Looks
The first artist monograph featuring the work of Swiss-Guinean artist Namsa Leuba.
New Queer Photography: Focus on the Margins
"This book is all about fearless queer photography." i-D / Vice
Zanele Muholi
Born in South Africa, Zanele Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that sought to envision black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives beyond deviance or victimhood. Muholi's work challenges hetero-patriarchal ideologies and representations, presenting the participants in their photographs as confident and beautiful individuals bravely existing in the face of prejudice, intolerance and, frequently, violence.
Behind the Camera: American Women Photographers Who Shaped How We See the World by
Each of the women in this series stepped out of the bounds of physical and social expectations to pursue her personal vision through photography.
Carrie Mae Weems
Essays and interviews explore the work of Carrie Mae Weems.
Humans: Photographs That Make You Think by
A startling and original look at what it means to be human in a rapidly changing world, from bestselling author and art writer Henry Carroll, with images by a diverse and innovative group of contemporary photographers
Photography, a Feminist History by
This feminist retelling of the history of photography puts women in the picture--and, more importantly, behind the camera!
Photography As Critical Practice: Notes on Otherness by
This volume brings together photography and written essays that relate to aspects of otherness and visual work. Presented together, the images and critical writings work in concert to construct a new social perspective on questions of otherness and alterity and to highlight photography as a form of critical practice.