Publications

exhibition catalogue

Portraiture & the Harlem Renaissance: The Photographs of James L. Allen. (Exhibition Catalogue) New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1999.

essays

Dark Stars: Reinventing Blackness in the Interwar New York – London Circuit,” American Art 37 (1) (Spring 2023): 2-31.

The African Roots of Modern Fashion,” The Brooklyn Rail (March 1, 2017)

Critical Race Art History,” and “Beyond the Numbers Game: Diversity in Theory and Practice,” edited by Jordana Saggesse. Art Journal 75 (1) (Spring 2016): 89-92, 98-109.

“Afrochic: Africa in the Modernist Imagination,” in The African Americas: The African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Edited by Persephone Braham. (University of Delaware Press/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015): 93-101.

“James Latimer Allen, Madonna and Child,” Object Narrative, in Conversations: An Online Journal of the Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (2014)

“Lovechild: Stieglitz, O’Keeffe, and the Birth of American Modernism,” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 30 (2005): 395-43.

catalogues

“Loïs Mailou Jones,” in RE:COLLECTION: Selected Works from the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2010): 70-1.

“Doris Ulmann,” in To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. By Richard J. Powell and Jock Reynolds. (Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy; New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1999): 228-9.

reviews

Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century (review). Modernism/modernity 16 (3) (September 2009): 641-3.

“Alfred Stieglitz,” History of Photography 26 (2) (Summer 2002): 161.

entries

“African American Photography, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” “James Presley Ball,” “Dawoud Bey,” “Prentice Herman Polk,” and “Deborah Willis,” in Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. Edited by Joan Marter. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011): 54-60, 134, 194, 237, 264-5.

“James Latimer Allen,” in Harlem Renaissance Lives (African American National Biography). Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham. (London: Oxford University Press, 2009): 2-4.

“James L. Allen,” “Roy De Carava,” “Harlem Renaissance,” and “James Van Der Zee,” in Oxford Companion to the Photograph. Edited by Robin Lenman. (London: Oxford University Press, 2005): 23, 160, 270, 652.

other media

California [Lyric video for song by Kandia Crazy Horse] (2013)