publishes elegant, idiosyncratic, and accessible books that combine words and images to celebrate contemporary photographic artists, and to explore the marginal, hidden, and parallel histories of photography.
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Black Box : A Photographic Memoir
Dona Ann McAdams
Hardcover / 10 x 9 inches / 256 Pages / $50
A black box is a darkroom, a theatre, a camera obscura, and the device that records accidents after they happen. For fifty years photographer Dona Ann McAdams has walked around with her own black box—an analog Leica M2—making unforgettable images of the happy, tragic, historic accidents of her times.
Black Box marries McAdams’ iconic images with her own short lyric texts. Together they form a tender poetic portrait of a young female working-class artist, as well as an unapologetic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, the Culture Wars, and the Performance Art scene of the 1980s and 1990s. From her encounters with artist intellectuals such as Angela Davis, David Wojnarowicz, Maurice Sendak, and Meredith Monk, to her humorous self portraits, Black Box is a book about photography itself as the keeper and framer of memory.
The Saint Lucy Story
Saint Lucy Books was established in 2017 by artist and writer Mark Alice Durant. Our first book, Hidden Mother, by Laura Larson, was shortlisted for the Aperture / Paris Photo Best Photobook of the Year. Since then, we have released 12 critically-acclaimed titles. Saint Lucy works on one book at a time; we value collaboration and respect to produce elegant, idiosyncratic, and accessible books that combine words and images to celebrate contemporary photographic artists, and to explore the marginal, hidden, and parallel histories of photography.