Good Looking Out
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Good Looking Out “…is what Black People say to each other when they say, “Thank you.” It’s a concept connected to an experience Jules had over thirty years ago. He cites a chance encounter with an upper-middle-class-looking brother working in his garden on Strivers Row in Harlem who asked him for the time.
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…is what Black People say to each other when they say, “Thank you.” It’s a concept connected to an experience Jules had over thirty years ago. He cites a chance encounter with an upper-middle-class-looking brother working in his garden on Strivers Row in Harlem who asked him for the time. Jules told him, and the guy replied, “Good looking out.”
It took 30+ years of pictorial gestation and traversing the United States and Africa to arrive at this collection, Jules mused, “Sometimes what you’re looking for is right in front of you.”
Introduction by Joe Lewis. Published by QCC Art Gallery Press
Released June 2020
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Weight | 1.786 lbs |
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Dimensions | 11.732 × 9.331 × .0709 in |
Publisher | Publisher : QCC Art Gallery; 1st edition (January 1, 2019) |
Original Release | Introduction by Joe Lewis. |
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Defines what a classic of a genre is…this is a book for the ages.
Jules Allen shows the possibilities of thought in and of art, of change and of understanding of the cross pollination of art and life…you just have to “see”. Allen visually articulates through his photographs what it means to engage and compose the chaos unfolding before our eyes.
He turns it into a beautiful statement about the beauty and the love of the rhythm in community.
This book has rhythm. It is music.
A Book for our Time
Jules Allen’s new book of photographs entitled, “ Good Looking Out”, is a visual memoir of the moments he has captured of Black People from across the United States all the way to Africa. In these images Allen has glimpsed and photographed the gestures, styles, customs and traditions that are inherent, inherited, and most of all – Natural to Black People, everywhere. The tilt of the head and the sway of the back of a workman in coveralls is seen again in the stance of a young boy standing among friends in Africa. Are these similarities of postures or deeper lessons of a culture that have not been displaced or forgotten through the centuries of the diaspora. His photographs present a joy and beauty of his subjects whether at play, work, worship or in solitude. His mastery is in the awareness of these moments, of seeing the rhythms, the connections and links in Black Communities. This book is a celebration, a photographic affirmation of excellence by a photographer who will always keep seeking out the rhythms of his people.
Black Lives Exquisitely Seen
With his latest book ‘Good Looking Out’ Jules Allen continues his decades long project of making exquisite photographs of Black people in the midst of living their lives. Moving from the United States to Africa, Allen inserts himself fully and deftly into the ongoing lives of his subjects, rendering these seemingly ordinary moments as exquisitely seen visual poems. With light, gesture, and attention to behavior as his essential elements, he uses the camera to describe the world in ways that reinvent it for our eyes. This book affirms the lives of the Black people who are its subjects and the singular vision of this photographer. You will want to add it to your collection.
Highly recommend
Beautiful pressing and beautiful photos, very happy to add this to my collection.
Worth it!
Beautiful images on high quality paper. Appropriate for the times.
This is Good
I’ve looked at this book at different times of day and night. It makes me smirk, smile, wrinkles my eyes, and feel both older and younger. My head turns back and forth, like I’m looking at real life moving by. Jules’s eyes and feet are invisible, but key to the experience of where he takes us, and the moments he decides to share with us. The juxtapositions of the photographs magnify their meaning, and there is another layer of wisdom in the sequences.
Good Looking Out is worth your time. This book will encourage your soul and imagination.
Thank you Jules
Photographer extraordinaire
Great photography with captivating images
A MUST for your Collection
Allen’s eye is nothing short of genius. Each photograph is composed in such a way that the people and their environments are locked together in perfect harmony. Bravo!
This is one of Jules Allen’s most entrancing works
This book encompasses photography on so many levels. Tone and Texture, shadows and light. The symmetry of people moving together in the city. A truly beautiful photographic series of reality in motion, thanks for this creation professor, Good Lookin’ Out!
These are photographs of Black Lives That Matter
These photographs of Jules Allen portrays how human relationships matters in black life. The photographer plays with highlighting reality between something and nothing. If you like art and good photography, you will love this book.
Jules the Great!
Amazing person and photographer. Definitely one of the greatest American photographers and every young Black photographer should own this book, and others by Mr. Allen.