Recent Art Books

This archive list features queer feminist art books, exhibition catalogues and book projects.

• New Book: ET L’AMOUR AUSSI by Marie Docher (2023) (9/6/2024) - Video (2:18): Teaser in French (with French subtitles) about the photography book 'Et l'amour aussi' by Marie Docher (La Déferlante Éditions, 2023).
• Self Publish, Be Happy Interview: Åsa Johannesson (2010) (9/6/2024) - Video (1:32:): Photographer Åsa Johannesson talks about her book 'The Boy and The Twins'. Video by Lorenzo Ricciarelli for SP,BH (2010)
• New Book: Photography – A Queer History – How LGBTQ+ photographers shaped the art (8/27/2024) - From Robert Mapplethorpe to Deborah Bright, this is the essential guide to queer photography. Photography - A Queer History (Octopus/Ilex, February 2024). includes the work of international 84 artists.
• Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing About Art by Helen Molesworth (8/14/2024) - Video (51:23): Arts writer and curator Helen Molesworth at The New Orleans Book Festival (2024) about finding her own voice (as a lesbian) and her new book. Moderator: Susan Taylor.
• Esther Pressoir: A Modern Woman’s Painter (7/15/2024) - Esther Pressoir: A Modern Woman's Painter by Suzanne M. Scanlan is the first book to present and contextualize the vast oeuvre, including paintings, drawings, prints and ceramics of American artist and lesbian Esther Pressoir (1902-1986).
• New Art Book – The Secret Art of Dorothy Hepworth AKA Patricia Preece (6/26/2024) - This fully illustrated monograph is published to coincide with the major exhibition, Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: An Untold Story, at Charleston Lewes and tells the extraordinary story of the artist duo and romantic couple in detail for the first time.
• Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture, 2024) | PhotoBook Flip Through (5/23/2024) - Video (1:59): A PhotoBook Flip Through of Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture, 2024)
• Book Talk: Kelli Connell, “Pictures for Charis” (5/23/2024) - Video (59:03): Aperture PhotoBook Club presents a conversation with Kelli Connell about her new book “Pictures for Charis” (2024). "Pictures for Charis” will also be traveling as an exhibition this fall starting in Atlanta.
• Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between by Gemma Rolls-Bentley (5/15/2024) - 'Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between' by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and Sir Isaac Julien. Publisher: ‎Frances Lincoln; 1st edition (9 May 2024)
• Book Launch: Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen by Bonnie Yochelson (5/15/2024) - Book Launch: Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen by Bonnie Yochelson June 6, 2024 | 6:30pm; Talks of the Town Lecture Series at Historic Richmond Town, Staten Island, USA.
• Annie Leibovitz by Annie Leibovitz (2022) (4/26/2024) - Photography book - Annie Leibovitz by Annie Leibovitz (Taschen America Llc, 2022)
• The US Book Launch of ‘Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between’ (4/26/2024) - Book Launch - Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between by Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Monday, May 6, 6-8PM at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York.
• Mother, Wonder by Roni Horn (4/9/2024) - Art Book - 'Mother, Wonder' by Roni Horn, (Steidl; 1st edition, 25 May 2023). The art book features a series of photographs from one of the artist's favourite places in Iceland.
• Art Book – Bonsoir: Ithell Colquhoun (3/12/2024) - The author writes: This beautiful and exciting book brings Ithell Colquhoun’s previously unseen story to life, with texts from leading experts on Colquhoun to contextualise the work: Colquhoun's fictive Surrealist film.
• Book: Lingering at your window by Mary T Faria (1/15/2024) - Artist's Statement by Mary T Faria about her latest photography book: Lingering at your window by Mary T Faria (Datz Press, 2023)
• Book Launch: Contemporary Queer Chinese Art by Dr Hongwei Bao (12/22/2023) - Video (1:20:58): Dr Hongwei Bao talks about his latest publication 'Contemporary Queer Chinese Art' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023). He is joined by Burong Zeng, artist contributor to discuss the publication.
• The Children of Our Town (10/5/2023) - The Children of Our Town. A childrens' book by artists Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire. Verses by Carolyn Wells. New York, ca. 1902.
• LJ Roberts | Carry You With Me: Ten Years of Portraits (2021) (9/30/2023) - Video (6:15): Artist talk with LJ Roberts on the occasion of LJ Robert’s exhibition and publication "Carry You With Me: Ten Years of Portraits," (Pioneer Works, 2021).
• Margaret Galvan on The Comics Visionaries: Lee Marrs and Roberta Gregory and Her New Book (9/18/2023) - Video (1:27:02): Margaret Galvan on The Comics Visionaries: Lee Marrs’s and Roberta Gregory’s Underground Feminism. Watch the video 'Margaret Galvan, Sept 5, 2023' on Youtube.
• Juicy Mother: Celebration Anthology (2004) Edited by Jennifer Camper (8/27/2023) - Video (12:10): Look inside the book, Juicy Mother (Volume 1) Celebration Anthology (2004) edited by Jennifer Camper. It is a cartoon anthology with work by and about queers, women and people of color.
• Graphic Novel: RED AS BLUE by Ji Strangeway (2018) (8/20/2023) - Video (2:53): Filmmaker, artist and poet Ji Strangeway talks about her LGBTQ Lesbian Teen Graphic Novel, RED AS BLUE (2018).
• Kate Charlesworth Author of Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide (8/14/2023) - Video (1:05:28): Conversation with British cartoonist Kate Charlesworth author of Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide, a graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020.
• MATCHMAKING IN THE ARCHIVE by E. G. Crichton (8/13/2023) - Video (1:06:37): E. G. Crichton in conversation with Alexandra Teixeira Riggs for a discussion of the book, Matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts by E. G. Crichton.
• Art As Activism and Sea(see) by Jeanette Spicer (8/7/2023) - Video (56:48): This pride panel debate by Los Angeles Center of Photography is showcasing the impactful photographs by the queer artists Jeanette Spicer and Michael Young. Jeanette Spicer starts with a presentation of the erotic photographs from her book Sea(see).
• Look Inside: ‘Look at me like you love me’ by Jess T. Dugan (2022) (7/11/2023) - Video (1:23: a leaf through the monograph ‘Look at me like you love me’ by Jess T. Dugan, (MACK, 2022). The book was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2022.