“Dreams from America” is Renée Jacobs’ biggest collection to date and is composed of 308 images taken mostly during the photographer’s years living in California from 2006-2016.
Category: Art book
Posts about recently published queer feminist art books, monographs, zines, graphic novels, etc. made by living artists and biographies about our queer feminist foremothers that have made it into our queer art history.
We Others. Photographer: Donna Gottschalk. Edit: Nathalie Chapuis, assisted by Camille Cibot. Texts: Hélène Giannecchini, Julie Héraut, Carla Williams. Publisher: LE BAL / Atelier EXB, 2025.
Video (0:57): Catherine Opie introduces her exhibition Catherine Opie: To Be Seen at The National Portrait Gallery in London. The show runs through 31 May 2026.
Still Dangerous! – The Harmony Hammond Reader by Harmony Hammond,
Editor: Tirza True Latimer,
Foreword by Julia Bryan-Wilson,
Release date: August 25, 2026.
Video (16:15): Queer artist Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty takes us on a walk to the Ladies’ aka the Office of a Kurator where she discusses her art books.
Video (8:01): A flip through Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005–2016 (Taschen, 2017).
Video (13:07): A leaf through the book, Annie Leibovitz – Wonderland (Phaidon Press, 2021).
Video (7:25): Annie Leibovitz shares moments behind photographing some of the world’s most influential women, now published in the reissues of her book Women.
Ksenia M. Soboleva’s book project, What Happens After, Art, AIDS and Lesbian Histories is the first art-historical study to focus on art and lesbian identity during the initial two decades of the AIDS crisis in the United States.
Video (0:22): A quick leaf through Red Threads (2004) by Poulomi Desai and Parminder Sekhon.
Video (6:08): A leaf through Zanele Muholi Exhibition Book (Tate, 2020). Zanele Muholi is a South African visual activist and photographer documenting the LGBT+ community in South Africa.
Video (43:54): Miwa Messer in conversation with Annie Leibovitz about her book Women (Phaidon, 2025) which is now in two volumes.
Video (56:08): Jennifer Camper in conversation with Katie Fricas about her debut graphic novel, Checked Out (2025).
Video (9:53): MSNBC interviwes author Alison Bechdel about her graphic novel Fun Home (2006).
New Art Book;
Queer Modernism: 1900–1950
/ Queere Moderne – Queer Modernism: 1900-1950
by Susanne Gaensheimer (Editor), Isabelle Malz (Editor), Anke Kempkes (Editor). Publisher: Hirmer, 2025
The First Homosexuals by Jonathan D. Katz offers a stunning and illuminating look at the first self-consciously queer art.
“33 st mf” is a handmade artist’s book about Danish artist and queer woman Birthe Havmøller’s home, a studio flat.
Video (11:03): The featured Artist’s books are “Vidai,” by Insiya Dhatt (limited number edition, 2022), and “Marriage Matters,” (2005) by Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry.
Video (5:52): Roni Horn discusses her artist’s book A Dream Not Dreamt about her largest show to date held at HE Art Museum in Foshan, Shunde, China, in 2023.
Video (6:29): Frizz Kid (AKA Hana Shafi), a Toronto-based illustrator and writer, discusses the beginnings of her affirmation series and her book “Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty”.