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12 Photobooks That Celebrate Black Voices and History

From Arielle Bobb-Willis’s vividly playful tableaux to Ernest Cole’s incisive photographs of America in the late 1960s, here are essential titles to read this Black history month.

How Awol Erizku Is Building a Visual Multiverse

In this interview from his Aperture monograph, the artist speaks about his entry into photography and the collective legacies of Blackness.

A Look Inside the Book Launch for Awol Erizku’s Long-Awaited First Monograph

On June 27, Gucci hosted Aperture and Awol Erizku to celebrate the launch of Mystic Parallax.

Awol Erizku’s Surreal Visions of Africa and Its Diaspora

Engaging traditions of Dadaism and Surrealism, the photographer visualizes contemporary Black creative life.

The Photographer’s Playlist

Nan Goldin, Alec Soth, Jamel Shabazz, and others share the music that comforts, inspires, or makes them move.

Vision & Justice: Awol Erizku

A young photographer finds inspiration in Old Masters and Afropunk.

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