— Laura Beltrán Villamizar, NPR, WAMU 88.5 Photographer Polly Irungu wanted to find a way to spotlight and support Black women photographers — so she created a community and database to do just that. Her site, Black Women Photographers, is a forum where members can celebrate each other’s work. It’s also a platform both to […]
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‘It Should’ve Happened A Long Time Ago’: Whitney Retrospective Gives Black Photographers Their Due | Gothamist
— Danny Lewis, WNYC, Gothamist In the 1960s, a group of Black photographers from New York City began gathering in kitchens, living rooms, and galleries to critique each other’s work. According to one of the workshop’s founders and its current president, Adger Cowans, they basically began as “bull sessions” where photographers would talk shop. […]
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He Photographed Ferguson. Now Adrian Walker is in The National Portrait Gallery | Riverfront Times
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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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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A Last Look at Ebony’s Archives… | The New York Times
The most significant collection of photographs depicting African-American life in the 20th century is being auctioned. Historians fear the archive could end up hidden away.
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Thinking, Thinking, Looking and Looking | Lapham’s Quarterly
On Gordon Parks’ camera and what it saw.
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Former Ebony publishing company is auctioning off its historic photo archive, containing more than 4 million photos, to pay its creditors | CNN
Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, CNN Author James Baldwin photographed leaving his home. (G. Marshall Wilson/Johnson Publishing Company). Featured Image [dropcap]C[/dropcap]NN – Ebony and Jet magazines were once pinnacles of black American culture. Their photographs were windows into intimate moments of black celebrities, and they were known for their everyday depictions of middle class […]
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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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