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A Magazine #22 – Curated By Grace Wales Bonner
Publisher: A Magazine, 2021
Softcover, 200 pages, English
Size: 30x23cm
New in seal

British-Jamaican fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner established her eponymous label in London in 2014. In this issue, entitled “Rhapsody in the Street”, she presents a meandering curation of archival portfolios and other historical ephemera, as well as newly commissioned essays, poems, paintings, and portraits. New work includes series shot in Los Angeles, London, Miami, and Paris, with the leitmotif of Black portraiture central to each. With conversations on Jamaican dancehall, the Kamoinge Workshop in Harlem, and unseen Ghanaian film photography, plus work by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, poems by Roger Robinson, and words from Ben Okri.

Selected Contributors:
Adjoa Armah, Akeem Smith, Anthony Barboza, Beat Streuli, Ben Okri, Chino Amobi, Damian Marley, Dawoud Bey, Gregory Tate, Harley Weir, Hilton Als, Ishmael Reed, Jamie Hawkesworth, John Goto, Laraaji, Liz Johnson Artur, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Mahfuz Sultan, Marlon James, Dr. Michael Ralph, Ming Smith, M.J Harper, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Roger Robinson, Samuel Fosso, Shanay Jhaveri, Steven Traylor, Tom Guinness, Tyler Mitchell, Wilson Oryema, Zoë Ghertner.

Featured Artists:
Amiri Baraka, Billy Abernathy, Brassaï, David Hammons, Dennis Morris, Eric N. Mack, George Platt Lynes, Lord Snowdon, Louis Draper, Ntozake Shange, Viviane Sassen.