Tag: Kwame Brathwaite

The Photographer of the Black Is Beautiful Movement | The New Yorker

The Photographer of the Black Is Beautiful Movement

Kwame Brathwaite’s landmark work, beginning with a show in 1962, had a titanic impact on fashion and identity.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/afterword/the-photographer-of-the-black-is-beautiful-movement

Kwame Brathwaite’s landmark work, beginning with a show in 1962, had a titanic impact on fashion and identity.

April 24, 2023
Remembering the Life and Work of Kwame Brathwaite

Remembering the Life and Work of Kwame Brathwaite

Ekow Eshun, Tanisha C. Ford, Tyler Mitchell, and Antwaun Sargent on the visionary photographer whose images and activism helped popularize the slogan “Black Is Beautiful.”

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/remembering-the-life-and-work-of-kwame-brathwaite/

Ekow Eshun, Tanisha C. Ford, Tyler Mitchell, and Antwaun Sargent on the visionary photographer whose images and activism helped popularize the slogan “Black Is Beautiful.”

April 7, 2023
The Photos That Lifted Up the Black Is Beautiful Movement – The New York Times

The Photos That Lifted Up the Black Is Beautiful Movement

For over 50 years, the photographer Kwame Brathwaite captured African-American beauty and fashion, giving visual power to black power.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/lens/kwame-brathwaite-black-is-beautiful.html

For over 50 years, the photographer Kwame Brathwaite captured African-American beauty and fashion, giving visual power to black power.

November 27, 2018