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The Story of Senegalese Visionary Mama Casset | The Culture Trip

January 14, 2020January 27, 2020African Art, African Politics

During West Africa’s prolific era of portrait photography in the 1900s, Mama Casset emerged as one of Senegal’s pioneering figures. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] When portrait photography first started to emerge from French West Africa in the early 1900s, it was almost exclusively Europeans who operated the cameras. Native subjects were prized for their exotic settings, unusual […]

Christine Chambers, 39, Dies; Her Photos Empowered Actors of Color | The New York Times

December 21, 2019December 21, 2019African American Art, African American Photography

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 […]

When the white establishment ignored these black photographers, the Kamoinge collective was born | Timeline

October 22, 2019December 17, 2019African American Art, African American History ...

Based in 1960s Harlem, they challenged the way stories of black lives were told, and who got to tell them

Capturing the Soul: Photographic Portraiture Before the Smartphone Era | The New York Times

September 18, 2019July 31, 2020KOLUMN Magazine

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.

Thinking, Thinking, Looking and Looking | Lapham’s Quarterly

September 11, 2019August 4, 2020African American Photography, KINDR'D ...

On Gordon Parks’ camera and what it saw.

Contemporary Artists Contextualize the Work of Black Panther Photographers | Hyperallergic

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019African American Art, African American Photography ...

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.

Cleveland Museum of Art celebrates the photographic triumph of Gordon Parks | Cleveland.com

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019African American Art, African American Photography ...

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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