100 New York Photographers
by Cynthia Dantzic
An extensive review of the great range of contemporary New York photographers and their widely diverse, surprisingly divergent, images. It presents their subject matter and etheir very definitions of photography, darkroom and digital. Their photographs have been seen in publications, galleries and museums.
Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present
by Deborah Willis
One of Jamel's most recent contributions was to Deborah Willis' "Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890's to the Present" It features the work of more than 100 photographers across various styles and social themes.
Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs
by Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan, Charles Traub,
and Alice Rose George
The slip-cased, 12" 8 1/4" book presents 720 color and 160 duotone (and mostly full-page) portraits of the city in crisis, with crisp printing and no captions. While many of the images may resemble those seen repeatedly over the past year, this assemblage feels direct without being voyeuristic.
Street Art, Street Life
by Lydia Yee, Katherine Bussard, Frazer Ward, and Whitney Rugg
"Street Art, Street Life" examines the street as subject matter, venue and source of inspiration for contemporary artists and photographers from the late 1950s to the present. This unique volume includes street photography; documentation of performance, events and artworks presented in the street as well as works using material from the street and examples of street culture.
Jamel's book collaborations
Black: A Celebration of a Culture
by Deborah Willis
A celebration of African-American culture, vividly captured in more than 500 stunning photographs, "Black: A Celebration of a Culture", presents the vibrant panorama of 20th-century black culture in America and around the world in more than 500 photographs from the turn of the last century to the present day. Each photograph, hand-picked by Deborah Willis, America's leading historian of African-American photography, celebrates the world of music, art, fashion, sports, family, worship and play.
Hip Hop Immortals
by Bonz Malone
What makes this book so unique is the way in which creators, designers, subjects, photographers and writers came together to create the vision that has become Hip Hop Immortals. Immortal Brands chose the final indelible images from a vast collection of photos submitted from over five hundred photographers from New York to Paris. The images that were captured are in fact "Immortal", everlasting, timeless and eternal.
Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects 1997-2007
by Julie Crooks
This excellent collection of photo-based work that explores black identity celebrates the tenth anniversary of Toronto's "Wedge Curatorial Projects", founded by collector and Wedge Gallery Director, Kenneth Montague.
Over the past decade, the project has evolved to include community workshops, collaborations with local organizations, international galleries and even a music compilation series. The works range from vintage Harlem Renaissance images to documentary photographs of Africa, from pictures of the Black British Arts movement to contemporary portraiture and conceptual work.