What matters most : photographs of Black life /

"Thoughtfully illustrated, this volume highlights a selection of photographs of African American family life between the 1970s and the early 2000s--pictures that were lost by their original owners and then found by the artist Zun Lee on a street in Detroit in 2012, marking the beginning of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lee, Zun (Editor, Curator), Hackett, Sophie, 1971- (Editor, Curator), Martin, Dawn Lundy (Contributor), Harney, Stefano, 1962- (Contributor), Moten, Fred (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto : New York, NY : Art Gallery of Ontario ; DelMonico Books, 2022.
Subjects:	Art Gallery of Ontario > Photograph collections > Exhibitions. African Americans > Social life and customs > Pictorial works > Exhibitions. African American families > Pictorial works > Exhibitions. Vernacular photography > Exhibitions. Instant photography > Exhibitions. Noir américains > Moeurs et coutumes > Ouvrages illustrés > Expositions. Familles noires américaines > Ouvrages illustrés > Expositions. African American families. African Americans > Social life and customs. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition, pictorial works. Photobooks.

Table of Contents:

Director's foreword / Stephan Jost
Black Aliveness in Flight / Dawn Lundy Martin
Fade of the Black Family Photograph / Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
What outlasts / Sophie Hackett
A Whole Mess and a Half: The Matter of Most / Zun Lee
List of works.