Check out 17 prints from famed fashion photographer Lillian Bassman, who died just last month, at Books & Books Miami Beach. Now through June 1.Bassman won acclaim in the 1940s and ’50s with high-contrast black-and-white portraits of models that had a dreamy quality. In the 1990s, she rediscovered a stash of lost negatives and emerged as a fine-art photographer.A new book of her work Lillian Bassman: Lingerie has just been published. As Ginia Bellafante put it in the New York Times recently, “In place of heavyset women constraining themselves in what was essentially equipment, Ms. Bassman deployed immeasurably lithe models, conveying a world in which women seemed to linger in the pleasures of their own sensuality.” Fifty years later, these images have lost none of their allure, and the enormous cultural impact of the TV show Mad Men has given them new currency.  1. It’s a Cinch, model: Carmen, Merry Widow by Warner’s, 1951, for Harper’s Bazaar, © Lillian Bassman  2. Southwest Passage—Sunset Pink, pajamas by Kickernick, 1951, for Harper’s Bazaar, © Lillian Bassman   3. The Line Lengthens, lingerie by Lily of France, 1955, for Harper’s Bazaar, © Lillian Bassman     4. Silo, Bra and Panties, 1948 (advertisement for Firestone Contro elastic yarn), © Lillian Bassman   

In Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention (Algonquin, $23.95) Jamal Joseph vividly recounts his introduction to the Black Panther Party, and his progression from a young, naïve street kid to a confident and outspoken member of an influential national movement, and later to an Oscar nominee (for IMPACT Repertory Theatre’s song “Raise It Up” from the movie August Rush) and a professor at an Ivy League college. In addition to providing insight into the Panther movement, Joseph’s story spans and illuminates a ground-shifting and volatile period of New York and national history, encompassing anti-Vietnam protests and the rise of the Weathermen, police brutality and the height of the drug war, the murder of George Jackson and the Attica rebellion, and gang violence and the untimely death of Tupac Shakur (to whom Joseph was godfather). Presented in collaboration with The Center @ Miami Dade College.