The October issue begins with Trope Rome, the latest in Trope’s City Edition series, focusing on the history of one of the world’s most beloved cities. Next is Buried in Style, a photographic journey documenting the funeral culture of the Ga-Adangme people of Ghana. We continue with Linda Foard Roberts: Lament, a look at the racial tensions of the American South, and At the Vanguard, a visual volume celebrating the Historically Black Colleges and Universities throughout America. We conclude the October edition with Family Amnesia, a document of Chinese American family resilience and Saga De Xam, a re-issue of a long out-of-print 1960s cult classic.
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Trope Rome
edited by Michelle Fitzgerald and Kendra Huspaska
Trope Publishing Co. • September 2025 • 9781951963408 • iPage
Trope Rome celebrates the rich cultural and historical heritage of Italy’s capital city and offers a new perspective on one of the most photographed and most photogenic cities in the world. This collection highlights the work of thirteen independent photographers from Rome and beyond, putting the city’s architecture and urban landscapes in a new light. Showcasing both the historic elegance and timeless grandeur of contemporary Rome, the images reveal distinctive and dramatic visions of one of the world’s greatest cities.
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Celebrate death as we celebrate life: This is the credo of the funeral culture of the Ghanaian ethnic group Ga-Adangme, where creative coffins in the shape of animals and vehicles are used to represent the preferences and dreams of the deceased. For more than twenty years, Regula Tschumi has researched and photographed the Ghanaian funeral culture. Her astonishing, vibrantly colorful images depict Christian and traditional funeral ceremonies, various forms of laying out the deceased, as well as spectacular trends in coffin design over the past two decades.
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Lament connects the tangibility of history and the geography of memory in the American South. For this project, Linda Foard Roberts used Civil War-era equipment: an 8 x 10-inch view camera with a Darlot brass barrel lens, and she visited sites across the South where devastating events in social history took place. Her work examines life, death, human rights, and the excavations of narratives invisibly embedded in our lives. She has seen how such endeavors have the capacity to create opportunities for change, compassion, action, and justice.
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This first volume in a major new series offers a compelling glimpse into the transformative and revolutionary world of HBCUs and reveals their complex histories. This book attests to the aesthetic value of African American cultural production on university campuses, the ongoing development and expansion of HBCU academic programs, and the impact of student-led activism on campuses and throughout surrounding communities. Focusing on arts, academics, and activism, this remarkable assembly of images will inspire readers to engage with and reflect on the unforgettable stories they represent.
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Family Amnesia is a visual tribute and love letter honoring the artist’s Chinese American family roots in the U.S. The book explores her family’s multi-generational resilience through mixed media collages, her grandfather’s photographs, her own captured images, and archival material. This is a contemporary view of the modern Chinese American family as well as a document of the complexities of family history, a generational story of challenges faced as an immigrant in the U.S., and a look at the discrimination that followed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
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Saga De Xam
by Nicholas Devil and Jean Rollin
Anthology Editions • September 2025 • 9781944860714 • iPage
In the annals of alternative comics, few works are as venerated as Saga De Xam, the legendary French graphic novel by Nicholas Devil and Jean Rollin. Originally published in 1967, this book earned a devoted cult following for its innovative psychedelic visuals and avant-garde sensibilities, even as it spent decades out of print. Saga De Xam chronicles the adventures of Saga, a blue-skinned female alien on a mission to Earth, as she encounters both the cruelties and the possibilities of human civilization, from prehistory to the Middle Ages to the radical 1960s.
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| Looking for more visual books? Peruse our Fall 2025 art & design catalogs on Edelweiss and iPage.
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