“In the Company of Black” is now on view at the Chicago Cultural Center.
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Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’ | The New York Times
A new retrospective book “Seeing Deeply” reveals his decades-long exploration of community, memory and photography.
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26-Year-Old Photographer Nadine Ijewere On Her Historic Vogue Cover | Vogue
Hayley Maitland , Vogue [dropcap]When[/dropcap] Nadine Ijewere photographed Dua Lipa, Binx Walton, and Letitia Wright on the Kentish coast for this issue’s cover story, she became the first woman of colour to shoot the cover of any Vogue in the magazine’s 125-year global history. Here, the one-to-watch shares the details of her remarkable career to […]
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A National Gallery show examines Gordon Parks’s early years | The Washington Post
Parks had a sense of the camera’s potential as a tool of social justice from early on.
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How Carrie Mae Weems Rewrote the Rules of Image-Making | The New York Times Style Magazine
Perhaps our best contemporary photographer, she creates work that insists on the worth of black women — both in art and in life.
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Primark’s new model is representing the beauty of darker skin | MetroUK
We know the modelling world is in dire need of some diversity.
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Digitally Altered Portraits Superimposed with Flowers, Antique Patterns, and Wildlife Illustrations by Tawny Chatmon | Colossal
Kate Sierzputowski Colossal Tawny Chatmon. Featured Image [dropcap]Maryland[/dropcap]-based artist Tawny Chatmon combines traditional portraiture with digital collage, layering elements of antique patterns, vintage botanicals, and wildlife illustrations onto images of her children and other relatives. Once printed, Chatmon often revisits the digital textures she has superimposed, physically adding layers of gold ornamental elements or paint. […]
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LaToya Ruby Frazier’s best photograph: me and my guardian angel | The Guardian
‘My grandmother collected porcelain dolls after her daughter was murdered. It was something to do with filling that loss. She was my guardian angel’
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Thomas Allen Harris Goes Through a Lens Darkly | PBS.Org
The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People probes the recesses of American history through images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost.
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Hidden portraits: rare photos of African American life get a spotlight | The Guardian
At a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art studio portraits of anonymous black Americans give a rarely seen view of life at a time of change
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