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Picturing the Caribbean (review)

Reviewed by Shivanee Ramlochan for Caribbean Bookshelf, Caribbean Beat.
The traditional photo book is going through some changes. No longer content to reside stoutly on coffee tables, books on photography are being designed to reflect the new, sometimes startling ways in which we interface with mass media. They demand conversation, juggle with our expectations of what the photographic portfolio is “supposed” to resemble. Pictures from Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography (Robert and Christopher Publishers, 224 pp, ISBN 9789769534476), edited by Mariel Brown and Melanie Archer, is a convincing pioneer of this modernising, reshaping ethic. It highlights the work of eighteen Caribbean-born or -based artists, from the mixed media narratives of Barbadian Ewan Atkinson to the memory-infused collages of Nevisian Terry Boddie. In Pictures from Paradise, the syncretic face and body of a Caribbean nation emerges, irreconcilable as it is marvellous to gaze upon.
This review appeared in the March/ April 2013 issue of Caribbean Beat.

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We've got a US Distributor!


 
We are thrilled to announce that our recent title, Pictures from Paradise, has been picked up for distribution in North America by Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P. / artbook.com). D.A.P. is the world’s top distributor of art books and exhibition catalogues published by leading museums and independent publishers, including MoMA, SFMoMA and the Guggenheim. Robert & Christopher is the first Caribbean publisher to be distributed by this prestigious company, and we’re feeling pretty great that the 18 artists featured in Pictures from Paradise will gain additional exposure from this access to a US market. If you’d like to have a look at D.A.P.’s Spring 2013 catalogue, click here. (You’ll find us on page 100!)
Pictures from Paradise will hit stores in North America in March – check back soon for an updated list of retailers. As part of our distribution deal with D.A.P., the title will also be available via amazon.com  from the end of March, so place your advance orders now!
Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. is America’s premier source for books on twentieth century art, photography, design and aesthetic culture. Founded in 1990 in downtown New York at a time when fine and sometimes esoteric international art books had a difficult time making their way into the wider American marketplace, over the past two decades D.A.P. has grown into a major international distributor of books, special editions and rare publications from an array of the world’s most respected publishers, museums and cultural institutions.
D.A.P. is the exclusive North American representative of such major American museum publishers as the Guggenheim Museum; the Aspen Art Museum; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Fine Arts Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among many others. Some of the independent international publishers represented by D.A.P. include Aperture, Charta, Chris Boot, Damiani, Editorial RM, Exact Change, Fuel, Gregory R. Miller & Co., Hatje Cantz, JRP|Ringier, Metropolis Books, NAi, Picturebox, Poligrafa, Turner and Walther König.