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Cover of the book 'Black Masculinities' by Hatje Cantz and Joshua Amissah. The cover is black with the title in black bleeding into a white vertical stripe down the lefthand side of the cover.
Sample pages of the book which include an image of a shirtless Black man in red trousers who is facing away from the camera on the left. A green rope has been wrapped around his waist and is being pulled in opposite directions. The image on the right is of two seated Black men embracing. The one on the right of the image is wearing blue pants, the one on the left is wearing orange pants.
Wadsworth Atheneum

Black Masculinities: Creating Emotive Utopias through Photography

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New visions and possibilities for Black masculinity through the lenses of 28 international photographers.

In Black Masculinities, clichés of Black identity and masculinity are deconstructed and remade with exhilarating flexibility and imagination through the lenses of 22 Black photographers from around the world. Deeply embedded in histories of slavery, racism and oppression, Black masculinity is often mediated as aggressive, hypersexual and violent. Here, Swiss author, artist and editor Joshua Amissah compiles work that contributes to a wider spectrum of Black masculinities. By doing so, he writes, "[the photographers] are also questioning the narratological function of race and gender in visual culture as a whole … the stereotyped entanglement of ‘Black identity’ and ‘masculinity’ is visually deconstructed, partly reproduced and, more importantly, charged with a new set of values."

Details:

Publisher: Hatje Cantz 

Author: Kemka Ajoku, Kwaku Alston, Namafu Amutse, Eric Asamoah, Nuits Balnéaires, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Braylen Dion, Kofi Duah, Yannis Davy Guibinga, Jabari Jacobs, Kelvin Konadu, Jude Lartey, Naomi Mukadi, Maganga Mwagogo, Lakin Ogunbanwo, Ruby Okoro, RogersOuma, Micha Serraf, Ngadi Smart, Isaac West, Jozef Wright, and Ussi’n Yala

315 pages

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-3775755191