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Adger Cowans is an 85-year-old photographer and visual artist in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He has worked with celebrated photojournalist Gordon Parks, photogr...
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Celebrate Blackness Year Round
Black photography documents a unique experience of Blackness. How we move, feel, create, speak, and so much more. Our history has been erased especially within photography and how much we've contributed to how far photography has transcended as an art form. This storyboard speaks to some of the trailblazers and up-and-coming photographers who share in-depth stories about the diaspora. They also inspire me as Black photographer to create with no limitations.
ON CARRIE MAE WEEMS’S deck in Syracuse, N.Y., locusts are buzzing about the space like doomsday portents, emerging from the ground after 17 years only to drown boozily in our cups of rosé. It’s a warm day in late June, and a summer languor — or maybe it’s a news-cycle-induced torpor — is in the …
Dawoud Bey, A Young Man Resting on an Exercise Bike, Amityville, NY, 1988, inkjet print, 30 x 40". Over the past forty-five years, Dawoud Bey has …
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Lorna Simpson talks to Frieze about her life and work in her Brooklyn studio. Simpson came to prominence in the 1980s through her pioneering approach to conc...
On the occasion of World Photography Day, we delve into the history of Black Women Photographers (BWP), a project launched in 2020 that aims to be a home for Black women striving to receive proper recognition and get hired from the industry. After two years since the inception, BWP has formed into …
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Portrait photographer Devin Allen’s story is as interesting as it is inspiring. While his Time magazine cover photo (“Baltimore Rising”) in 2015 is what laun...
WHEN GENERAL MOTORS announced plans to slash its domestic work force in 2018, company stock soared 5 percent. LaToya Ruby Frazier, a Chicago-based artist whose photographs and videos champion unsung members of the working class, was furious. She decided to embark upon a new series devoted to the …
No one represented urban New York’s visual history quite like Jamel Shabazz. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he picked up his first camera at the age of …
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