Marilyn Nance holding the very first advanced copy of her book, Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos, the moment captured by Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Brooklyn August 16. ☀️ Over the course of five decades, Marilyn Nance (born 1953) has produced images of unique moments in the cultural history of the US and the African Diaspora. Nance is a two-time finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Library of Congress, and has been published in The World History of Photography, History of Women in Photography and The Black Photographers Annual. She lives in New York. 📸 We’ll be posting more about this important publication in the days leading to the launch, which also falls on Nigeria’s Independence Day, October 1. 🇳🇬 Link in bio to pre-order, and to RSVP for the book launch on CARA’s Grand Opening. #marilynnancephotoarchive #marilynnance #lastdayinlagos #festac77 @marilyn.nance @festac77archive @oluremi.onabanjo @fourthwall_books