Arielle Bobb-Willis: Keep the Kid Alive

(Hardback)

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The first monograph by the New Black Vanguards Arielle Bobb-Willis is a vivid statement about color, gesture, and style.

Keep the Kid Alive

, Arielle Bobb-Williss first book, invites audiences into a brightly imaginative world, filled with dynamic colors, gestures, and unusual poses of the artists own creation. Transforming the streets of New Orleans, New York, and Los Angeles into lush backdrops for her wonderfully surreal tableaus, Bobb-Willis makes unforgettable images that expand the genres of fashion and art photography. I love the idea of seeing Black people represented in an abstract way, Bobb-Willis says. Its important to me to continue to reject the notion that Black expression is limitedor limiting. With a conversation between Bobb-Willis and a dynamic range of artists, stylists, and creatives who speak about keeping their inner kid alive, this book captures a definitive young artists unconventional worldbuilding.

Author Bio

Arielle Bobb-Willis (born in New York, 1994) has published her photography in the New Yorker, I-D, W Magazine, British Journal of Photography, L'uomo Vogue, New York magazine's The Cut, and the New York Times Magazine. Her work is featured in The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion (Aperture, 2019) and an accompanying exhibition, which traveled to the Museum of the African Diaspora, Rencontres d'Arles, Fotografiska Sweden, and other venues. She is currently based in Los Angeles. Tiana Reid is an assistant professor in the Department of English at York University in Toronto. She is a regular contributor to Aperture, Bookforum, Frieze, the New York Times, and The New York Review of Books. Nicole Achaempong is the digital editor at T Magazine. A former editor at Aperture and the Atlantic, her writing has appeared in Art in America and the New York Review of Books.