Reviews
Verified owner"Good Looking Out" is another important collection of photographic work by Jules Allen. I have several publications of his work and regularly share the books with my students. These books should be in every serious photography library, personal and institutional. Congratulations, beautiful work.
Verified ownerPublications of the work of Jules Allen are a vital part of my ongoing collection of photography books. His photographs are both important representations of Black life and remarkable examples of the very best of the medium. I couldn't be happier to have this book on my shelf.
A must have for your book collection !!!!!!
A beautiful table book displaying snapshots of African American history. A must have for every household.
Masterful photographic art offering beauty and sociological insight into Black people
This is a unique keepsake from one of the world’s most influential photographers. Looking at the totality, I.e., the quality and beauty of the photographs with their subtle insight into the Black milieu; the underlying sociological significance of the vistas arrayed, not just for Black folks, but for all people who have the sophistication to absorb the knowledge available on these pages; the aesthetic and jazzy presentation of this compilation of Mr. Allen, from the rich plum colored cover—to the texture of the pages; and the eloquent, elegant and resonant text provided by Mr. Lewis, means that this is Jules Allen’s best work to date.
This is Art in a very beautiful, very lofty, very singular class all to itself.
Classic Photography at its best!
A refreshing and beautiful display of classic Photography. In a world where everyone is taking pictures, very few are thinking their way through the photograph. Jules shows you the difference a decerning eye and feel for composition can make. Masterfully done. Do not put this book on a book shelf, leave it out for people to enjoy and be inspired to create.
Noggin Heaven
"The Hats and The Hats Nots is a marvelous procession of the crowns in Noggin Heaven. Absolutely delightful. Hats off to Jules"
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.
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.
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!
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!
Photographer extraordinaire
Great photography with captivating images
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
Worth it!
Beautiful images on high quality paper. Appropriate for the times.
Highly recommend
Beautiful pressing and beautiful photos, very happy to add this to my collection.
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.
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.
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.