Light Break presents the first survey since 1996 of photographer Roy DeCarava, an essential figure of American art and culture, whose “poetry of vision” re-forms urban life, labor, love, and jazz into the discovery of “an intimate, emotional arc of transformation.”

Ming Smith’s poetic and experimental images are icons of twentieth-century African American life.

Roy DeCarava’s the sound i saw is the pictorial equivalent of jazz. Here, the visionary photographer turns his gaze on legendary jazz icons Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday, among many others.

The first complete monograph and retrospective on the sixty-year career of Frank Stewart, photographer of an astonishing range of intimate and empathetic images of Black life, music, and culture.

Roy DeCarava (Author), Langston Hughes (Author), Sherry Turner DeCarava (Contributor)

Oluremi C. Onabanjo spotlights a single photograph by Ming Smith, celebrating her synesthetic range and acuity of visionon goes here

Anthony Barboza, Aaron Bryant, and Mazie M. Harris, with an introduction by Hilton Als, available at Getty Museum Store, and Amazon

Lola Flash, available on Amazon

Herb Robinson, available at Barnes & Noble, and Amazon

Adger Cowans, available at 21st Century Editions

Anthony Barboza, available on Amazon.

Laylah Amatullah Barrayn & Delphine Fawundu, sold out, out of print.

Gerald Cyrus, available on Blurb.

Roy DeCarava, available on Amazon.

Louis H. Draper, available on Amazon.

John Pinderhughes, available on Amazon

Ming Smith, available on Amazon

Frank Stewart, available on Amazon.

Eli Reed, available on Thrift Books

Jamel Shabazz, available on Amazon.

Sarah Eckhardt, available on Amazon.

Adger Cowans, available on Amazon.

Anthony Barboza, available on Amazon

Wynton Marsalis & Frank Stewart, available on Amazon.

Adger Cowans, available on Amazon.

Gerald Cyrus, to purchase, contact info@geraldcyrus.com.

Roy DeCarava, available on Amazon.

Lolis Eric Elie & Frank Stewart, available on Amazon.

Ruth Fine (Author), Frank Stewart (Photographer), Romare Bearden (Painter), David C. Driskell (Foreword), available on Amazon.

Adreinne Waheed (Author, Photographer), Jamel Shabazz (Foreword), Rhea L. Combs (Introduction), available on Amazon.

Alex Fakso (Photographer, Foreword), Jamel Shabazz (Photographer), Giovanna Calvenzi (Introduction), available on Amazon.

Starmel Allah (Author), Sunez Allah (Editor), Jamel Shabazz (Photographer), available on Amazon.

Eli Reed, available on Amazon.

Jamel Shabazz, (Author), Peterson (Contributor), Killa (Contributor), Rodriguez (Contributor), available on Amazon.

Jamel Shabazz, available on Amazon.

Jamel Shabazz (Photographer), Fab 5 Freddy (Introduction), Carlton Usher Ph.D. (Afterword), Jeff Chang (Contributor), available on Amazon.

Jamel Shabazz, available on Amazon.

Jamel Shabazz (Author), Terrence Smith (Editor), Terrence Sanders (Introduction), Akintola Hanif (Introduction), Terrence Jennings (Introduction), Paul Farber (Foreword), Jen Zhao, available on Amazon.

Eli Reed, available on ThriftBooks.

First applauded for The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a book on Harlem life published in 1955, DeCarava is a master of poetic contemplation and sensual tonalities in black and white. Above all he is a photographer of people, and his images combime social conviction with humanity and personal feeling.