The exhibition has deep roots for Adrian, yet the idea was first inspired by a series of coincidences. A friend recommended that Adrian shoot product photos for OJI Royale in Los Angeles, which makes designer and luxury durags. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “That’s what I was set to do, but I try to tell stories within all […]
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Christine Chambers, 39, Dies; Her Photos Empowered Actors of Color | The New York Times
As a photographer and a playwright, she helped document the rise of a generation of theater artists who wanted to tell their own stories their own way. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Christine Chambers, a photographer whose pictures of actors of color helped document the rise of a newly energized black theater movement that emerged in New York […]
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Found: The Oldest-Known Photograph of Enslaved African Americans With Cotton | Atlas Obscura
The daguerreotype records their faces, but not their names.
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What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics | The New Yorker
In 1893, Ida B. Wells published a pamphlet titled “The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition.” The expo, which lasted for six months, was held in Chicago and was meant to chart the trajectory of the Americas in the four hundred years since Columbus had arrived. Though a handful […]
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When the white establishment ignored these black photographers, the Kamoinge collective was born | Timeline
Based in 1960s Harlem, they challenged the way stories of black lives were told, and who got to tell them
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Capturing the Soul: Photographic Portraiture Before the Smartphone Era | The New York Times
From F.B.I. posters to commissioned family photos, portraits have long revealed how people wanted to be presented, and sometimes how they didn’t.
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Thinking, Thinking, Looking and Looking | Lapham’s Quarterly
On Gordon Parks’ camera and what it saw.
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Contemporary Artists Contextualize the Work of Black Panther Photographers | Hyperallergic
Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics & Black Futures highlights Bay Area artists and artist collectives whose work contextualizes the lasting impact of BPP ideology and activism, and the photographs of Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones.
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Cleveland Museum of Art celebrates the photographic triumph of Gordon Parks | Cleveland.com
Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland.com One of the 13 murals that make up “The Life of Washington,” at George Washington High School in San Francisco. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times, Featured Image [dropcap]CLEVELAND[/dropcap], Ohio – Gordon Parks made it look easy. As director of the Shaft detective movies in the 1970s, and as […]
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24 Old School Cool Photos Of Black Couples Throughout The Years | HuffPost
We asked readers to share their favorite photos of their grandparents and parents through the years.
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