5 posts tagged with photography by praemunire.
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Dogs of New York
all there is, seen and unseen
"What are these women going to look like?"
Kwame Brathwaite: Celebrity and the Everyday is an exhibit chronicling the work of Brathwaite, photographer of the "Black is Beautiful" aesthetic movement, which organized fashion shows in the early 60s of black women in natural hairstyles. [more inside]
1941: Chicago's South Side
In 1941, Farm Security Administration photographer Edwin Rosskam visited Chicago together with novelist Richard Wright and photographed the black residents of the segregated South Side. These images were later used in Wright's book Twelve Million Black Voices. (Many of those living on the South Side had taken part in the Great Migration from the South to the Northern industrial cities.)
"tantalizing for what they show, but also what they don’t show"
Cornell recently digitized its Loewentheil Collection of African-American Photographs, 645 images spanning the century from the Civil War to the 1960s. These images are largely of unknown individuals, such as an elegantly dressed African-American woman from the 1870s; a late nineteenth-century man with a cane; and three small children.
(Note that there is at least one image of a lynching and others of child slave labor.)
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