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Chris Cook – Black Lives Matter Monograph

Black Lives Matter is a limited-edition, 364-page photographic monograph by Brooklyn artist and photographer Chris Cook documenting the 2020–2021 protests. Published by Valentine New York Publishing, it features 159 visual plates capturing the civil rights movement during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Black Lives Matter” is 364 pages, trim size of 11.5 x 13.6 inches, with 159 plates. The text is printed on 200gsm Magno Satin coated stock. The endpapers are 170gsm Sirio black uncoated stock. “Black Lives Matter” is Smyth-sewn, with endpapers, hardbound with a square spine, with 4mm board covered with Brillianta cloth, with one-color foil stamping on the front and spine, head and tail bands, and jacketing with French folds. The slipcase is made of a 3.75mm board covered with Brillianta cloth, lined with 120gsm black Sirio uncoated stock, with one-color foil on the front and spine.

This publication is a closed, 250 limited edition that was published by Valentine New York Publishing, a division of Valentine New York.

Composition

Hardcover Book and Slipcase

Pages

364

Size

11.5 x 13.6 inches

Released

September 15th, 2022

Institutional owners

  • Bavarian State Library, Artists’ Book Collection
  • Black Gotham Experience, Archives, New York
  • Bliss Institute, Belize City, Belize
  • British Library, North American Collections, United Kingdom
  • Charles Evans Inniss Memorial Library at Medgar Evers College
  • Clark-Atlanta University
  • Columbia University, Avery Library
  • Cornell University Library, Rare and Manuscript Collections
  • Duke University’s Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  • Florida International University, Steven and Dorothea Green Library
  • Georgetown University, Joseph Mark Launder Memorial Library
  • Kingston College, Jamaica
  • Leiden University, Photography Collections, The Netherlands
  • Morehouse College
  • Morning Dew Foundation, United Kingdom
  • National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian
  • Newark Public Library, Special Collections
  • New York University, Bobst Tamiment, Main Collection
  • Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria
  • Peabody Essex Museum, Phillips Library
  • PolicyLink (National Research and Action Institute)
  • Pratt Institute, Special Collections
  • Princeton University, Marquand Library
  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University Special Collections
  • Spelman College
  • Studio Museum in Harlem
  • The City College of New York, Morris Raphael Cohen Library
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Thomas J. Watson Library
  • The Ohio State University, Thompson Special Collections Rare Books
  • The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  • The University of British Columbia Library, Canada
  • The University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections – Rare Book Collection
  • The University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • The University of Toronto, Fisher Library, Canada
  • The University of Washington, Special Collections
  • The Whitney Museum of American Art— Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
  • Toronto Metropolitan University, Special Collections
  • University of California, Los Angeles, Charles E. Young Research Library – Special Collections
  • University of Connecticut Library, Special Collections
  • University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
  • University of Michigan Library, Special Collections
  • University of Sydney Library, Cultural Collections
  • University of the Virgin Islands, Special Collections
  • University of the West Indies, Roseau Dominica
  • University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
  • Vanderbilt University, Jean and Alexander Heard Library – Special Collections
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts – Special Collections
  • Williams College, Special Collections
  • Wilmer Jennings Gallery, Kenkeleba House
  • Western University, The D. B. Weldon Library
  • Yale University, Haas Arts Library – Special Collections