Explore photobooks from the ICP Library and connect with fellow photobook enthusiasts at ICP's Photobook Club.
This session of Photobook Club is hosted by Stacy Kranitz and Laura Hutson Hunter, examining photobooks that challenge dominant narratives of representation, including Kranitz’s As It Was Give(n) to Me and Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down.
Stay after to join In Conversation: Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down, at 1 PM.
The Photobook Club takes place in the ICP library on the last Saturday of each month. This event is free to attend with RSVP.
About the Artist
Stacy Kranitz lives on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. She has received a Pulitzer Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work. Her photographs are in public collections, including the National Gallery of Art, Harvard Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, She works on assignment for publications including the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, ProPublica and Mother Jones. She is currently a 2026/27 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Her latest project — Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down — is a photobook, an exhibition, and an essay film that deeply examine cultural depictions of Appalachia.
Laura Hutson Hunter is a writer, editor, and curator based in Nashville. She is the arts editor of the Nashville Scene, and she co-edited the Frist Art Museum’s catalogue In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century, published by Vanderbilt University Press. She is currently pursuing a certificate in Curatorial Practices in Photography through the International Center of Photography. She curated the exhibition Stacy Kranitz: Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down, on view through December 15 at NYU’s Gallatin Galleries.
About ICP Library
ICP’s reading library contains over 20,000 books and periodicals. The reading room is currently open to the public during ICP’s monthly Photobook Club, to researchers by appointment, and to members during Library Member Hours.
Learn more about ICP’s Library here.
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