The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion

Presenting a fresh articulation of the black figure as seen by a generation of black image makers, Antwaun Sargent’s The New Black Vanguard combines short essays interspersed with beautiful spreads by 15 photographers from New York to Lagos, Johannesburg, Saint-Aubin and beyond. Featured here are the likes of Tyler Mitchell, Jamal Nxedlana and Arielle Bobb-Willis – whose models are often contorted in ways that obscure the face, resisting any direct confrontation with the camera. This book resists singular notions of identities while simultaneously capturing a universal black vernacular, and as a result, feels new every time you open it.