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7 Photobooks That Consider Black Lives and Artistic Visions
From Carrie Mae Weems and Ming Smith to “Black Is Beautiful” and “The New Black Vanguard,” here are essential Aperture publications for our moment.
Kwame Brathwaite,
A school for one of the many modeling groups that had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s, ca. 1966
Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles
Featured - February 11, 2021
Carrie Mae Weems,
Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Copublished by Aperture and Peabody Museum Press
To Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty men and women of African descent who were enslaved in South Carolina. Photographed by Joseph T. Zealy for Harvard University professor Louis Agassiz in 1850, the images were rediscovered at Harvard’s Peabody Museu
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Updated 8th January 2021
Credit: Lyle Ashton Harris/Courtesy the artist and Salon 94, New York
A trove of old Ektachrome slides shows artists, friends and lovers in the 1980s and 90s
Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
When Lyle Ashton Harris grandfather passed away, he and his brother inherited a vast trove of over 10,000 Ektachrome slides documenting his day-to-day life. Developed in the early 1940s, the film is a brand name from Kodak, and was a new type of color technology when their grandfather adopted it. (Instead of adding color to black-and-white images during processing, as is done with Kodachrome, this film allowed people to take images directly in color.)