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Kwame Brathwaite : black is beautiful

Title
  1. Kwame Brathwaite : black is beautiful / [texts by Kwame Brathwaite, Tanisha C. Ford, and Deborah Willis].
Published by
  1. New York, NY : Aperture, 2019.
  2. ©2019
Author
  1. Brathwaite, Kwame, 1938-2023

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Additional authors
  1. Ford, Tanisha C.
  2. Willis, Deborah, 1948-
Description
  1. 143 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
Summary
  1. In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the political slogan "Black Is Beautiful." This monograph--the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite's remarkable career--tells the story of a key, but under-recognized, figure of the second Harlem Renaissance. Inspired by the writings of activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey, Brathwaite, along with his older brother, Elombe Brath, founded the African Jazz Arts Society and Studios (AJASS) and the Grandassa Models (1962). AJASS was a collective of artists, playwrights, designers, and dancers; Grandassa Models was a modeling agency for black women, founded to challenge white beauty standards. From stunning studio portraits of the Grandassa Models to behind-the-scenes images of Harlem?s artistic community, including Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, and Miles Davis, this book offers a long-overdue exploration of Brathwaite's life and work
Alternative title
  1. Black is beautiful
Subject
  1. African American arts
  2. African Americans
  3. Photographers
  4. African Americans > Intellectual life
  5. African American photographers
  6. Exhibition catalogs
  7. Illustrated works
  8. History
  9. Exhibition, pictorial works
  10. 1900-1999
  11. USA
  12. New York, NY
  13. Schwarze
  14. Porträtfotografie
  15. Harlem renaissance
  16. Afroamerikanismus
  17. United States
  18. New York (State) > New York
  19. Harlem Renaissance > Exhibitions
  20. African American arts > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century > Sources > Exhibitions
  21. African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century > Exhibitions
  22. African Americans > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
  23. Photographers > United States > Biography > Exhibitions
  24. African American photographers > Biography > Exhibitions
  25. Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
  26. Brathwaite, Kwame 1938-
  27. Brathwaite, Kwame, 1938- > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  1. illustrated books.
  2. exhibition catalogs.
  3. Illustrated works
  4. Exhibition catalogs.
  5. Exhibition, pictorial works.
  6. History.
  7. Illustrated works.
  8. Ouvrages illustrés.
  9. Catalogues d'exposition.
Contents
  1. Foreword / by Kwame Brathwaite -- Kwame Brathwaite : black is beautiful / by Tanisha C. Ford -- African Jazz-Art Society -- Think black, buy black -- The Grandassa models -- Black is beautiful, then and now / by Deborah Willis
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Coincides with a touring exhibition of Brathwaite's work May 2019
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references