Tender

Second Edition Softcover with French fold jacket166 pages, 80 plates8 x 10 in / 203 x 254 mm2024ISBN 978-1-942953-72-2 First Edition Softcover with dust jacket160 pages, 80 plates8 x 10 in. / 203 x 254 mmSigned and numbered by the artistIncludes an original 4 x 6 inch / 102 x 152 mm print2023ISBN 978-1-942953-59-3 TBW Books is pleased to present Tender, the first monograph by artist Carla Williams. Made in private between 1984 and 1999 and kept mostly to herself for more than thirty years, the images in Tender comprise a complete, personal self-portrait of a young, queer, Black woman intimately exploring the realm of her own possibility. When Williams was eighteen and studying photography at Princeton, she began making the black and white and color portraits in Tender to create pictures in her own image. Her mind was filled equally with the canonical images of the medium’s male-driven history and the posing women discovered during her youth in her father’s pornography collection. Using