Beau McCall's, REWIND: MEMORIES ON REPEAT, is a timely and heartfelt art book celebrating the Black LGBTQ+ community. McCall’s debut art book honors the legacy of ten of McCall’s deceased friends through collages composed of archival photos and images from his button artwork. The collages capture the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, from Philadelphia to New York, during the LGBTQ+ rights movement, the height of disco music and the AIDS crisis. 

“Since the 1970s we have lost so many individuals to AIDS, drugs, and anti-trans violence. So I wanted to tell some of these lost stories through images of my own friends who experienced these issues,” said McCall. “It is my way of honoring my friendship with them and bringing greater visibility and representation to the unsung everyday people of the Black LGBTQ+ community.”

McCall’s work as an artist is rooted in framing personal memories and experiences with historical and social contexts. As an extension, McCall’s new body of work is the story of the power of memories to keep bonds alive, the beauty of friendship to help us thrive, the power of love to help us heal and the indomitable spirit of the LGBTQ+ community.

Plume House of Prayer Series II  REWIND: MEMORIES ON REPEAT   Artist: Beau McCall, Guest Edited by Souleo   

•  Editor: Nick Kline 
• Designer: Chantal Fischzang 
• Printing and Binding: Anthony Alvarez   
• Publisher: SHINE Portrait Studio Press 
• City: Newark, NJ 
• Year: 2021 
• Pages: 92 Dimensions: 10 in x 10 in x 1/4 in 
• Cover: Paperback 
• Process: Risograph