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"self-published"
The list of publications repeatedly states "New York: self-published / Red Hook", or minor variations thereof. Would simple "New York: Red Hook" be insufficient? (The article describes his role in Red Hook.) -- Hoary (talk) 07:57, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi there. With this, I only go from what I've picked up by eample of the syntax. If you think "New York: Red Hook" is good enough then thst's fine with me. And, given that all we know, from the article at least, is that "Eskenazi co-founded Red Hook Editions, a publishing cooperative of photographers", it sounds as though there are others involved. I feel more confident using "self-published" where it is an individual using a publisher name where they are the only person involved, and less so where there are multiple people. -Lopifalko (talk) 08:26, 22 January 2021 (UTC)


 * I don't think that Red Hook is a one-man enterprise, if only because it really does appear to exist in Brooklyn whereas Eskenazi is more often than not in Istanbul. (Citations needed!) As for one-man bands, Matt Stuart's All that life can afford is "London: Plague, 2016" that David Solomons' books are "London: Bump, [year]", that two of Homer Sykes' books from the noughties are "London: Mansion Editions, [year]", and a number of the fancifully named publishers of Kiyoshi Suzuki's books were in reality the man himself -- and there are probably many more besides. -- Hoary (talk) 09:20, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

"Black Garden"
Of the second half of the name Nagorno-Karabakh, Thomas de Waal tells us:


 * The word “Karabakh” is a Turkish-Persian fusion, most commonly translated as “Black Garden.” Perhaps it refers to the fertil­ity of the region—although the “Black” now seems more appropriate as a symbol of death and misery.

-- Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War (NY: NYUP, 2003), page 8.

Eskenazi can't have been unaware of this. His book Black Garden comes with no explanation. There's no mention of it either in his page about the book or Red Hook's. I'm surprised not to notice any confirmation or denial that this is relevant. Any encyclopedic ideas about the title, anyone?

(I also note "black earth", a term sometimes used for Ukraine in particular.) -- Hoary (talk) 07:57, 22 January 2021 (UTC)