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ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First Sight2025 Gift GuidesFeatured Image ArchiveEvents ArchiveDATE 8/15/2026 Back to School Staff Picks, 2026DATE 8/2/2026 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at Shoppe Object New York, August 2026DATE 7/30/2026 Previously unpublished archival materials and manifestos from design giant Charlotte PerriandDATE 7/26/2026 Vintage poster scrap from Tokyo’s influential Grand GalleryDATE 7/23/2026 Join us at the San Francisco Art Book Fair, 2026!DATE 7/23/2026 Words of wisdom from the greatest artists of our timeDATE 7/20/2026 Collier Schorr’s fascinating take on Chantal Akerman’s ‘Je tu il elle’DATE 7/19/2026 Metrograph presents Collier Schorr signing ‘Writing a Letter: Akerman Ballet, Act 1’ followed by a screening of Chantal Akerman’s ‘Je tu il elle’ with joint introduction by Matt WolfDATE 7/17/2026 LACMA Store presents Audrey Sands and Rebecca Morse on 'Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures'DATE 7/16/2026 Artworld occult! A new tarot deck from Francesco ClementeDATE 7/13/2026 An exploration of dancehall, reggae en español, and reggaeton through contemporary artDATE 7/12/2026 Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Karl Haendel, Andrea Gyorody and Aldy Milliken on 'Less Bad'DATE 7/11/2026 For 1970s beach vibe, you can’t do better than Joel Sternfeld’s ‘Nags Head’ | EVENTSCORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/19/2019Andrew Moore to launch 'Blue Alabama' at Yancey RichardsonSaturday, October 19 from 1–3 PM, Yancey Richardson gallery presents the launch of Blue Alabama, the new book of photographs by Andrew Moore, published by Damiani. The artist will be present throughout the reception and signed copies will be available for purchase.  ABOVE: "Back Room at the Harmony Club, Selma, AL," 2017. Andrew Moore photographs places in transition: Cuba, Detroit, the High Plains. In his latest project, he focuses on Alabama—a region with a complex relationship to the past. Spending four years in lower Alabama, Moore searched for what he called “that ‘deep history’ which resides in the humblest of settings.” And Alabama’s Black Belt—named for its fertile soil and deeply associated with the region’s African American culture—has that history. Before the Civil War, the region was the nation’s highest producer of cotton. Afterward, it was the site of some of the Jim Crow era’s most vicious violence and some of the Civil Rights Movement’s key battles. Photographic history also runs thick through Alabama. The tenant farmers immortalized in James Agee and Walker Evans’ Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) were residents, and some of the most famous images of the Civil Rights Movement—Bull Connor’s police dogs in Birmingham, the standoff at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma—were produced here. Moore’s photographs of the Black Belt honor its complicated histories but depart from them, avoiding stereotypes and finding the hope, resilience and creativity that animate this place. With the photographer acting “as a listener at history’s doorstep,” Blue Alabama offers a tender, surprising portrait of the South—a region marked by economic, social and cultural divisions, but also a love of history, tradition and land. The book includes a previously unpublished story by award-winning American novelist Madison Smartt Bell. American photographer Andrew Moore (born 1957) is celebrated for his large-format photographs that document the effects of time and change. His publications include Detroit Disassembled (2010), Cuba (2012) and Dirt Meridian (2015). Andrew Moore: Blue Alabama Book Launch and Artist Reception Saturday, October 19th, 1–3 PM Yancey Richardson Gallery 525 W 22nd Street, New York  |
