"Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal presents a survey of the artist’s prolific and extraordinary interdisciplinary career, incorporating all aspects of his art, with a particular focus on the work’s relationship to the photographic image and to issues of representation and perception. At the core of his practice, is his ability to parse and critically dissect the flow of images that comprises American culture, and to do so with p ..."
"Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art explores the ways contemporary artists use Ebony and Jet as a resource and as inspiration in their practices. Published by Johnson Publishing Company for over sixty years, both magazines are cultural touchstones for many African Americans and often represent a commonality between people of diverse backgrounds. This fully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays by Assistant Cur ..."
"Hank Willis Thomas gained wide recognition with his highly provocative series B(r)ANDED, which addresses the commodification of African-American male identity by raising questions about visual culture and the power of logos. Pitch Blackness, his first monograph, includes selections from this series and several others. The book begins with a deeply personal and interpretive re-telling of the senseless murder of young Songha Willis, the a ..."
"Catalogue of photographs and still images from the film Winter In America by Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi based on the events leading up to the murder of Songha Thomas Willis on February 2, 2000 outside Club Evolution in Philadelphia, Pa. The stop motion film technique is employed to animate the G.I Joe Action Figures the artists used to create similar narratives in during childhood. 9.5x9.5, 64 pages, 31 full color"
""From Hans Bellmer's grotesquely assembled poupée seductresses in the 1930s-40s to Todd Haynes's 1987 banned masterpiece "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" told with Barbie dolls, artists have frequently turned to the seeming benignity ..."
"A compelling collection of two hundred duotone photographs juxtaposes two significant traditions in African-American culture--the celebratory nature of Saturday night dancing, parties, music, romance, and other festivities, and the ..."
"Question Bridge assembles a series of questions posed to black men, by and for other black men, along with the corresponding responses and portraits of the participants. The questions range from the comic to the sublimely philosophical: from “Am I the only one who has problems eating chicken, watermelon, and bananas in front of white people?” to “Why is it so difficult for black American men in this culture to be themselves, their essen ..."
"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."
"The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) and renowned conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas, curator Kalia Brooks and other collaborating artists, including Lisa Fairstein, Wyatt Gallery, Hiroyuki Ito, and Will Steacy, as well as the ..."
"Exhibition Catalog; Published by Pizzuti Collection on the occasion of US IS THEM at Pizzuti Collection, September 18, 2015 - April 2, 2016."
Unbranded A Century of White Women, 1915-2015 [SIGNED - 2015 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING - FINE COPY] by HankWillisThomas Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2015 by Jack Shainman Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-692-41239-8, ISBN: 0-692-41239-5
"Contact Sheet 173: 40 Artists / 40 Years marks Light Works 40th Anniversary and is released in conjunction with the exhibition 40 Artists / 40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few. Light Work, an artist-run, non-profit organization, has been providing direct support to e ..."
"As the United States slowly emerges from its most significant economic downturn since the Great Depression, the CCA Wattis Institute reexamines the well-known photography program of the Farm Security Administration (1935-44). In More American Photographs, 12 contemporary photographers were commissioned to travel the United States, documenting its land and people. These new works are presented alongside historical images by original FSA ..."
""Aperture" magazine was founded in 1952 by the photographers Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan and Dorothea Lange, and the photography historians Beaumont and Nancy Newhall. These individuals wished to foster the development and appreciation of the photographic medium. Today the magazine maintains the founders' spirit, presenting a diversity of historical work, photojournalism and portfolios by emerging photographers, thematic ar ..."
"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."
"Themed around fashion and power, this issue is divided into two parts, the first dealing with all from Russian Constructivist dress and the rise and fall of the Duchess of Windsor to the image of women in fashion advertising and the emergence of the stylist as a force to be reckoned with in fashion. The second part, entitled 'Conversations with Power', contains interviews about the state of the contemporary fashion industry with opinion ..."