Over 179 images spanning her studio photography, street and fashion photography, and mixed-media collages illuminate Simpson’s gaze. The monograph reveals a signature visual language that uses the manifold articulations of Black style—across sports, youth, street, and fashion culture—to showcase the radiance and infinite textures of Black life.

First published in 1978, this book recognizes the value of photographing Black deaths and their rituals, turning these deaths into richly-layered visual stories.

In 2021, queer historian and longtime Brooklynite Marc Zinaman began documenting New York City’s historic and little-known LGBTQ+ spaces on Instagram, now gathered and expanded in book form. Here he opens up (over email) about the rewards and challenges of preserving queer history in a digital age and amidst regressive political targeting of the LGBTQ+ community.

Kennedy has devoted himself to the craft of letterpress printing, developing a signature affinity for pressing orphan type, mismatched fonts and sizes, loud color, typographic layers, texture, and—above all—truth into a page. When we spoke over Zoom, he opened up about why he prefers celebration of craft over art, and why he’s proud to be known as a “bad printer.”

Though Carrasco’s playground is the spectacularly maximalist realm of Afrofuturism with its Black-centric cyberpunk visuals, the book is stylized minimally. Three interconnected vignettes set in Afrofuturistic landscapes explore the artist's fascination with futurity and alternative realities.