Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Schiek, Paul
2. Miller-Young, Mireille, 1976-

Description

1. 77 leaves, 18 unnumbered leaves : chiefly illustrations (some color), color photograph; 26 cm

Summary

1. "TBW Books is pleased to present Tender, the first monograph by artist Carla Williams. Made in private between 1984 and 1999 and kept mostly to herself for more than thirty years, the images in Tender comprise a complete, personal self-portrait of a young, queer, Black woman intimately exploring the realm of her own possibility. When Williams was eighteen and studying photography at Princeton, she began making the black and white and color portraits in Tender to create pictures in her own image. Her mind was filled equally with the canonical images of the medium's male-driven history and the posing women discovered during her youth in her father's pornography collection. Using her own body, Williams created the portraits she had never seen before. Made with instant Polaroid 35mm and 4x5 type 55 film formats, Williams profited from the near instant result to continuously play with her own expression and form. An act of tender commune with herself, these are every version of the artist on full display: provocative, playful, sensual, gentle, powerful, mean, glamorous, forlorn, funny. The photographs in Tender are ignited with the raw energy of a young artist on the cusp of adulthood and her own burgeoning sexual identity. Included in the book are essays by the artist and scholar Mireille Miller-Young." -- Publisher's website.

Alternative title

1. Carla Williams, Tender

Subject

1. Williams, Carla, 1965-
2. Williams, Carla, 1965- -- Portraits
3. Williams, Carla, 1965-
4. 1900-1999
5. Photography, Artistic -- 20th century
6. Self-portraits, American -- 20th century
7. African American women -- Pictorial works
8. African American lesbians -- Pictorial works
9. Photography of the nude
10. Pinup art -- 20th century
11. Photography of women -- History
12. Female nude in art
13. Post-pornography
14. Photography, Artistic
15. Women -- Africa -- Pictorial works
16. Black race -- Pictorial works
17. African American lesbians
18. African American women
19. Female nude in art
20. Photography, Artistic
21. Photography of the nude
22. Photography of women
23. Pinup art
24. Post-pornography
25. Self-portraits, American
26. African American LGBTQ+ people
27. African American lesbians
28. Nude art
29. Women
30. Black race
31. Africa
32. United States
33. Black author

Genre/Form

1. History.
2. Photobooks.
3. Illustrated works.
4. Portraits.
5. Nude art.
6. Nude photographs.

Call number

1. Sc F 25-223

Language

1. English

Note

1. Signed copy of a numbered edition.
2. Edition of 1500.
3. Includes a 4 x 6 inch chromogenic print.
4. Dust jacket is a folded poster with artist's photographic prints (26 x 21 cm, opened to 48 x 68 cm).
5. Includes the essay "Carla Williams's Black Feminist Pornographic Gaze" by Mireille Miller-Young.

Local note

1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
2. Library has copy number 390, signed by the photographer.

Author

1. Williams, Carla, 1965- photographer.

Title

1. Tender / Carla Williams ; edit, design, and sequence, Paul Schiek ; [[essay by] Mireille Miller-Young].

Publisher

1. Oakland, CA : TBW Books, [2023]

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Type of content

1. still image
2. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Schiek, Paul, editor, book designer.
2. Container of (work): Miller-Young, Mireille, 1976- Carla Williams's Black feminist pornographic gaze.

ISBN

1. 9781942953593
2. 1942953593

Research call number

1. Sc F 25-223
2. JQE 24-198