1968; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019). Perhaps no one is more responsible for that than New York City-based photographer Kwame Brathwaite. It was a rejection of the Ebony and Jet “Beauty of the Week” ideal of how Black beauty should be characterized. On Friday, the Detroit Institute of Arts opens a new exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite to the public. 1966; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019).

Source: MetroXpress October 08, 2021 15:11 UTC