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This book by Grace Wales Bonner tells the story of black culture through works of art

Dream in the Rhythm – Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection it is not just a publication but a deeply personal meditation on the echoes of a modern expression black in the vibrant and virtuous design of Grace Wales Bonner – who we like to define as “Marshall outside, Basquiat inside”.

«An archive of soulful expressions»: that’s how she described it. Dawoud Bey, Roy DeCarava, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Friedlander, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Agnes Martin, Steve McQueen, Lorna Simpson and Wolfgang Tillmans, to name just a few: photographs, scores and films by forty-one artists are combined with the words of black authors of the last centuryas Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Dream in the Rhythm – Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA CollectionGrace Wales Bonner

«The book sector is a strong point of Paris Photo. Photo books are essential to creating interest in the photographic medium because they are accessible,” he explained Florence Bourgeoisdirector of the most important photography fair in Europe, in the interview given to Vogue Italia.

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