Rahim Fortune: Hardtack

About The Book

A significant theme in Hardtack is Fortune’s striking portraits of coming-of-age traditions. Inside, young bull-riders, praise dancers, and pageant queens inherit and gracefully embrace these forms of community ritual. Fortune’s dignifying eye pays tribute to these cultural performances’ rigour, discipline and creative flair, alongside the intergenerational conversation between young people and elders handing down these traditions. Publisher’s Info

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Rahim Fortune - Hardtack - Bildersturm Blog — Lessie Benningfield Randle, Tulsa,
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About The Artist

Rahim Fortune is a visual artist and educator from the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. He uses photography to ask fundamental questions about American identity. Focusing on the narratives of individual families and communities, he explores shifting geographies of migration and resettlement and the way that these histories are written on the landscapes of Texas and the American South. Fortune’s previous book, I can’t stand to see you cry, was published by Loose Joints in 2021, and was the winner of the Rencontres d’Arles Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2022.

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About The Publisher

Loose Joints is a multi-award-winning independent publishing house based between Marseille and London, founded by Sarah Chaplin Espenon and Lewis Chaplin in 2014. It also operates independently as a design studio, working across publishing and the arts.

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Specifics

Hardtack by Rahim Fortune is published by Loose Joints. With a text by Imani Perry. 144 pages; 238 × 287 mm; 72 tritone plates; section-sewn clothbound debossed hardcover; March 2024. Link.

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