George Osodi “Untitled” (2008) from the series Devil’s Dexterity, chromogenic print (image courtesy the artist and Z Photographic, ltd., photo by the author for Hyperallergic) For me, The Expanded ...
Thandiwe Muriu was 14 years old when she found photography. Her father taught her to use his Nikon digital camera, and every day after school she would rush home, finish her homework and then train ...
Portraiture and Political Imagination' at MoMA, New York, studies African creativity in photography in front of and behind ...
*The photographer behind the stunning image of 5-year-old Jare (see above), dubbed ‘the most beautiful girl in the world’, is blowing up across social media, with folks hailing her other unique pieces ...
At left, a photograph by Thomas E. Askew of women sitting on the steps of Atlanta University, from an album prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois (c.1899, via Library of Congress); at right, Amy Sherald’s ...
One Atlanta and two African artists share a remarkable affinity for blending the past and present in their work. The multitalented local artist Shanequa Gay is paired with two photographers from ...
A young man clowns around with a bicycle or two. Cardi B strikes a pose. A man in a camouflage uniform blends into camouflage wallpaper but the flowers he holds are an explosion of color. These are ...
During the colonial period, the camera became something of an imperial device, as Western images defined narratives about the history, culture, and identity of the African continent. Now, in its first ...
The Met’s exhibit “African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s,” on view through October 8th, is defined by a double anonymity. Most of the hundred and fifty portraits that ...
Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian collections, illuminate the little-known role these artists played in chronicling 19th-century life Rhoda Goodridge in a 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch ambrotype ...
Some essays originally presented at the conference "Portrait Photography in African Worlds" (February 3-4, 2006), University of California, Santa Cruz. Contents Introduction : the study of ...
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