Hardtack
by Rahim Fortune
Photographs: Rahim Fortune
Text: Imani Perry
Publisher: Loose Joints
144 pages
Year: March 2024
ISBN: 978-1-912719-55-6
Price: 60.50 €
Comments: 238 × 287 mm, 72 tritone plates. Section-sewn clothbound debossed hardcover. With a text by Imani Perry. Edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon at Loose Joints. Designed & Published by Loose Joints
Fortune uplifts the long-enduring nature of Black culture and traditions in the American South across ten years of portraiture rooted in history and the landscape.
Flour, water, and salt. These are the sole ingredients that make Hardtack: a Civil War-era food long-associated with survivalism, land migration, and its extremely long shelf life. Drawing from this history as a metaphor for the long-enduring nature of Black culture and traditions, Hardtack uncovers the roots that tie Fortune's native landscape to the conflicts and nuances associated with the post-emancipation Americas.
In the follow-up to his breakout monograph I can't stand to see you cry, Fortune borrows from the language of vernacular and archival photography to interrogate the historical relationship of his community to photography; rooted in the landscape, Fortune often uses sites of historical and cultural interest as a guide but not a subject, implying the deep ties that bind modern Black communities resiliently to their regions, in the face of both adversity and joy.
A significant theme in Hardtack is Fortune’s striking portraits of coming-of-age traditions. Inside, young bull-riders, praise dancers, and pageant queens inherit and gracefully embrace these forms of community ritual. Fortune's dignifying eye pays tribute to these cultural performances' rigour, discipline and creative flair, alongside the intergenerational conversation between young people and elders handing down these traditions. Collecting together nearly a decade of work, Hardtack continues Fortune’s weaving of documentary and personal history, marking a sincere expression of love and passion to a region that has nourished the artist personally and creatively, while also marking an important contribution to photographing the American South.
Nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025.
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Hardtack
by Rahim Fortune
Photographs: Rahim Fortune
Text: Imani Perry
Publisher: Loose Joints
144 pages
Year: March 2024
ISBN: 978-1-912719-55-6
Price: 60.50 €
Comments: 238 × 287 mm, 72 tritone plates. Section-sewn clothbound debossed hardcover. With a text by Imani Perry. Edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon at Loose Joints. Designed & Published by Loose Joints
Fortune uplifts the long-enduring nature of Black culture and traditions in the American South across ten years of portraiture rooted in history and the landscape.
Flour, water, and salt. These are the sole ingredients that make Hardtack: a Civil War-era food long-associated with survivalism, land migration, and its extremely long shelf life. Drawing from this history as a metaphor for the long-enduring nature of Black culture and traditions, Hardtack uncovers the roots that tie Fortune's native landscape to the conflicts and nuances associated with the post-emancipation Americas.
In the follow-up to his breakout monograph I can't stand to see you cry, Fortune borrows from the language of vernacular and archival photography to interrogate the historical relationship of his community to photography; rooted in the landscape, Fortune often uses sites of historical and cultural interest as a guide but not a subject, implying the deep ties that bind modern Black communities resiliently to their regions, in the face of both adversity and joy.
A significant theme in Hardtack is Fortune’s striking portraits of coming-of-age traditions. Inside, young bull-riders, praise dancers, and pageant queens inherit and gracefully embrace these forms of community ritual. Fortune's dignifying eye pays tribute to these cultural performances' rigour, discipline and creative flair, alongside the intergenerational conversation between young people and elders handing down these traditions. Collecting together nearly a decade of work, Hardtack continues Fortune’s weaving of documentary and personal history, marking a sincere expression of love and passion to a region that has nourished the artist personally and creatively, while also marking an important contribution to photographing the American South.
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Hardtack
by Rahim Fortune
Photographs: Rahim Fortune
Text: Imani Perry
Publisher: Loose Joints
144 pages
Year: March 2024
ISBN: 978-1-912719-55-6
Price: 60.50 €
Comments: 238 × 287 mm, 72 tritone plates. Section-sewn clothbound debossed hardcover. With a text by Imani Perry. Edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon at Loose Joints. Designed & Published by Loose Joints
Fortune uplifts the long-enduring nature of Black culture and traditions in the American South across ten years of portraiture rooted in history and the landscape.
Flour, water, and salt. These are the sole ingredients that make Hardtack: a Civil War-era food long-associated with survivalism, land migration, and its extremely long shelf life. Drawing from this history as a metaphor for the long-enduring nature of Black culture and traditions, Hardtack uncovers the roots that tie Fortune's native landscape to the conflicts and nuances associated with the post-emancipation Americas.
In the follow-up to his breakout monograph I can't stand to see you cry, Fortune borrows from the language of vernacular and archival photography to interrogate the historical relationship of his community to photography; rooted in the landscape, Fortune often uses sites of historical and cultural interest as a guide but not a subject, implying the deep ties that bind modern Black communities resiliently to their regions, in the face of both adversity and joy.
A significant theme in Hardtack is Fortune’s striking portraits of coming-of-age traditions. Inside, young bull-riders, praise dancers, and pageant queens inherit and gracefully embrace these forms of community ritual. Fortune's dignifying eye pays tribute to these cultural performances' rigour, discipline and creative flair, alongside the intergenerational conversation between young people and elders handing down these traditions. Collecting together nearly a decade of work, Hardtack continues Fortune’s weaving of documentary and personal history, marking a sincere expression of love and passion to a region that has nourished the artist personally and creatively, while also marking an important contribution to photographing the American South.
Nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025.
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Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg (signed)
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Tropical Depression (signed)
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Gstettn - Snails (review copies)
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Anchor in the Landscape (signed)
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Gstettn - Nature Planets
by Regina Anzenberger
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Baldwin Lee
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Posthumous Irony
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They had a Hat (signed)
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Paul und Clemence (slightly damaged)
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Zweiundachtzig Fotografien mit zweiundfünfzig Frauen
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