Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at the Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA)

These selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection make up an extraordinary group of images of African Americans in a variety of genres and poses, including formal studio portraits, casual snapshots, images of children, images of uniformed soldiers, wedding portraits and so-called "Southern-views" made for tourist consumption, all dating from 1860 to 1960.

The African Gaze is a comprehensive exploration of postcolonial and contemporary photography and cinema from Africa.

Curator Catherine E. McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history spanning a hundred-year arc (1870-1970) of what is among the earliest photography on the continent.

As We Rise presents an exciting compilation of photographs from African diasporic culture.

This book presents the vibrant panorama of 20th-century black culture in America and around the world in more than 500 photographs from the turn of the last century to the present day.

These striking studio portraits, curated and brought together following ten years of research championed by Autograph, constitute the most comprehensive collection of nineteenth-century photography depicting the Black subject in the Victorian era, including some of the earliest known images of Black people photographed in Britain.

Searching for photographic images of black women, Deborah Willis and Carla Williams were startled to find them by the hundreds.

A landmark survey of Black American photojournalism spanning 1945 to 1984, chronicling a critical period in the civil rights movements in the United States.

A timely reconsideration of the history of photography that places Black studio photographers, and their subjects, at the center.

In Image Matters, Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of a black European subject by examining how specific black European communities used family photography to create forms of identification and community.

Presenting the work of 30 diverse photographers from throughout Africa since 1940, this is the complete catalogue of an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening to photography by engaging with lost archives of state identification photographs of Afro-diasporan people taken between the late 1800s and the present, showing how to hear the quiet refusal emanating from these photos originally intended to dehumanize and police their subjects.

In The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, curator and critic Antwaun Sargent addresses a radical transformation taking place in fashion and art today.

In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession.

A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America.

Picturing Us brings together a diverse group of African American writers, scholars, and filmmakers in the first concerted effort to analyze and respond to the photographic images of blacks through history.

Long overlooked in American culture, African American beauty finally get its due in this landmark work.

The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Book Series--featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture.

Originally published in 2000, Reflections in Black was the first single-volume work to collect the images of leading African American photographers--from the daguerreotype to the digital age.

Guest edited by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Vision & Justice addresses the role of photography in the African American experience.