This book not only introduces the breadth of her production but of the thinking and methodology behind it. How Taeuber-Arp executed this creative approach reflects a meticulous, curious mind.

Play, desire, and possibility underpin the images. But perhaps most delightfully, Peter Tomka equates gestures in the images themselves with the analogue process of making a photo. 

This book illustrates the artist’s studio, the threshold of which no gallerist or curator had ever crossed. The merit of the project is in the access—understanding the ground zero of how an artist operated.

This book reintroduces a forgotten artistic figure whose visibility was squashed by the art world’s racism and misogyny. Although Vivian Browne (1929–1993) was in the same circuit as Faith Ringgold and Howardena Pindell, she has not had an equivalent renaissance in recent years, barring RYAN LEE Gallery in New York showing her work in 2019 and 2022.

Of the 108 photos, many present pliant, almost gymnastic silhouettes: arched backs and curved torsos, outstretched balletic arms and upturned chins, bent knees and curtains of hair, standing alone or in intertwined pairings. Facelessness is a kind of recurrent hide-and-go-seek, timid more than coy, the older version of hiding behind your mother’s leg. In an essay by scholar Tiana Reid, she praises the “flourishes and rainbowscapes” of Bobb-Willis’s output, “this romance toward living and creating.”

Love, You Came from Greatness, a slender monograph by American photographer and Spelman College professor Nydia Blas, explores Black community and family portraiture through a mix of contemporary and archival images.

Here we learn how a cohort of women so capably and astutely championed modern art. The book, scholarly in tone, acts as a restitution.