Dark Mirrors

Dark Mirrors

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

Published October 2021

Format Paperback with flaps
Dimensions 14 × 22.8 cm
Pages 240

Dark Mirrors brings together sixteen essays written between 2015 and 2021 by photographer and critic Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, focusing on contemporary photographic and video practices, primarily in the United States. The texts examine the relationship between images and the urgent, complex questions shaping our time, through close engagement with artists whose work reflects on history, visual culture and social life.

The book argues that one of the most dynamic sites of innovation in recent photographic practice has been the photobook itself, and many of the essays consider works specifically in that form. Recurring themes include the interrelationship between anti-Blackness and visuality, the fragility and complexity of embodied difference in portraiture, the social power of verbal and visual media, and the politics of attention.

Includes essays on artists such as Deana Lawson, Dana Lixenberg, Paul Pfeiffer, Arthur Jafa, Katy Grannan and Robert Bergman.

From Publisher’s website.