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Contact high
- Title
- Contact high / D'Angelo Lovell Williams ; text, Tiona Nekkia McClodden.
- Publication
- [London] : MACK, [2022]
- ©2022
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- Description
- 90 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (color illustrations), color portraits; 29 cm
- Summary
- Both an artist's book and comprehensive inquisition of D'Angelo Lovell Williams's work to date, Contact High offers an expansive engagement with the visualisation of desire and depiction of the Black body. Williams's narrative images reflect the many forms in which Black queer people exist and have existed historically within each other's lives, picturing them as sitters, lovers, caregivers, or shadows. Williams's work is guided by their life experience and an interrogation of their own perspective, as well as wider questions around the representation of race, class, sexuality, gender, and intimacy. The title Contact High references the importance of touch and gesture in Williams's work, and alludes to heightened senses and intuitive movement. From self-portraits to collaborations with community, Williams's photographs visualise the Black body in performative scenes that are theatrical, dance-like, and occasionally mundane, pointing towards collective histories and Black ancestral practices. At the heart of these intimate, dialogic images are notions of kinship and spirituality interweaved with quietly political and radical gestures. Williams's unfaltering gaze insists on visibility and deference, and creates scenes in which Black and queer voices are the authority. The dynamics that play out between families, cultures, friends, lovers, ancestors and descendants are visualised as a spectrum of care, tenderness, and vulnerability, speaking to the nuances of our complex lives often overlooked by historical depictions.
- Subject
- Williams, D'Angelo Lovell, 1992-
- Photography, Artistic
- African American gay men > Portraits
- Sexual minority community > Portraits
- Gay people > Portraits
- Homosexuality in art
- Black people in art
- Gay people
- Sexual minority community
- African American LGBTQ+ people
- African American gay men
- Gay men
- Homosexuality
- LGBTQ+ communities
- LGBTQ+ people
- Men
- Monosexuality
- Queer community
- Sexual minorities
- Sexual orientation
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Photobooks.
- Portraits.
- Note
- Chiefly illustrated.
- Awards (note)
- Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. 2022 First PhotoBook Shortlist.
- Call Number
- Sc+ F 23-505
- ISBN
- 9781913620622
- 191362062X
- OCLC
- 1317682138
- Title
- Contact high / D'Angelo Lovell Williams ; text, Tiona Nekkia McClodden.
- Publisher
- [London] : MACK, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- still imagetext
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. 2022 First PhotoBook Shortlist.
- Added Author
- Williams, D'Angelo Lovell, 1992- artist.McClodden, Tiona Nekkia, writer of added commentary.
- Research Call Number
- Sc+ F 23-505