Secession/Revolver Publishing, Vienna
1st edition, 2019
29 x 22 cm, 160 pages
Published on the occasion of Syms exhibition at Secession, the book, like the exhibition, references the Detroit-based Simpson’s Record Shop. Expanding on Syms’s interest in black-owned businesses as sites of interdependence and self-determination, the work highlights the Simpson’s Record Shop as one such business. Boon pays tribute to the creative energy with which Dorothy Simpson ran the record store, a center of the local community’s cultural, social, and economic life and gathering spot for its residents, from 1966 until 2018. Presented through the 160 pages of this publication, the numerous photographs of the owner and people from the neighborhood that covered the store’s walls illustrate its long history as a family business with deep roots in the local social fabric. Understated and very cool, long sold-out book.
Secession/Revolver Publishing, Vienna
1st edition, 2019
29 x 22 cm, 160 pages
Published on the occasion of Syms exhibition at Secession, the book, like the exhibition, references the Detroit-based Simpson’s Record Shop. Expanding on Syms’s interest in black-owned businesses as sites of interdependence and self-determination, the work highlights the Simpson’s Record Shop as one such business. Boon pays tribute to the creative energy with which Dorothy Simpson ran the record store, a center of the local community’s cultural, social, and economic life and gathering spot for its residents, from 1966 until 2018. Presented through the 160 pages of this publication, the numerous photographs of the owner and people from the neighborhood that covered the store’s walls illustrate its long history as a family business with deep roots in the local social fabric. Understated and very cool, long sold-out book.