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This one-of-a-kind treasure trove of Black cultural ephemera, from the entrepreneurs behind the vintage shop BLK MKT Vintage, expands on their mission to curate vintage objects that tell Black stories and celebrate the contributions Black people have made to our American consciousness.
Jannah Handy and Kiyanna Stewart have spent years scouring piles, stacks, bookshelves, and dilapidated boxes in search of themselves and their history, Black history. Through their Brooklyn brick-and-mortar BLK MKT Vintage and online shop, they have uncovered tens of thousands of items including vintage literature, vinyl records, clothing, art, decor, furniture and more.
BLK MKT Vintage: Reclaiming Objects and Curiosities That Tell Black Stories invites readers into Handy and Stewart’s work and partnership as they pick, collect, curate, design, and reimagine futures for the objects of the past. Brimming with more than 300 photographs of vintage pieces of ephemera, the book is a beautiful, ephemeral object itself calling to mind a scrapbook or family album that has a surprise on every page whether that’s 1972 celluloid pins from Shirley Chisholm’s presidential campaign, early 1800’s hand-drawn maps of the African continent, or 1920’s bound yearbooks from various HBCUs. The book also explores the various concepts that ground Handy and Stewart’s work; interviews with Black archivists, artists, memory workers and collectors – including a foreword from Spike Lee; a look into their private collection of thousands of items they have discovered over the years; an explanation of the different players in the antiques and vintage world; and tips and tricks on how to begin your own collection and curate physical spaces that reflect your identity and experience.
From the Publisher
An excerpt from the introduction of BLK MKT VINTAGE
In BLK MKT Vintage, we’ll take you on a few journeys with us – sharing peeks into our daily processes and rituals, into the earlier parts of our lives and career, and finally, into the moments that have brought us to rest at the feet of thousands of objects that tell Black stories and allow us to listen, learn, remember, and bring those lessons to the present and the future. We’ve been thinking about this book for almost a decade and knew that when the time came, we would write a book that placed us, two Black queer women from Brooklyn at the center, as means to show how Black folks have been doing the work of archiving, collecting, and preserving for as long as we’ve existed. That our business is the product of and response to generations of Black folks’ intimate relationship to memory work. We may be doing our work uniquely, creatively, and with a huge audience, but our work is rooted in a long tradition. We hope you are down for the adventure and surprise of what lies under the lid.
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal (October 15, 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 0762484039
ISBN-13 : 978-0762484034
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 7.95 x 0.95 x 9.85 inches
