Research Catalog

Title

Photographs [graphic] / Kwame Brathwaite.

Author

Brathwaite, Kwame, 1938-2023

Publication

1958-[1995]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

• 172 items (1.6 cu. ft., 4 boxes); 28 x 36 cm. and smaller.
• 110 photographic prints : gelatin silver, b&w ;
• 55 photographic prints : col. ;
• 7 photographic prints : col. ;

Summary

Collection depicts the activities of Pan-African, black liberation and cultural movements, local civil rights activities, and political and entertainment figures, from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, with the majority of the images dating from the late 1970s to mid-1990s.

Subjects

• Brath, Elombe
• Portrait photographs > 1950-1999
• Heads of state > Africa
• African American models > New York (State) > New York
• Anti-apartheid movements > United States
• Demonstrations > United States
• Music > Performance
• Rites and ceremonies
• Group portraits > 1960-1999
• Black nationalism > United States
• Heads of state > Caribbean Area
• Pan-Africanism
• African American musicians
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Sankara, Thomas
• South Africa > Politics and government > 1989-1994
• African American entertainers
• Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 > Inauguration, 1994
• Musicians > African
• Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street) Anniversaries, etc
• Congresses and conventions > Guinea > Conakry
• Moore, Audley, 1898-
• Dye coupler prints > 1980-1999
• Gelatin silver prints > 1950-1999
• Reggae musicians
• African American singers

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1950-1999.
• Group portraits – 1960-1999.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1950-1999.
• Dye coupler prints – 1980-1999.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photographs bear photographer's handstamp; some items bear photographer's signature on recto. Some items bear handwritten captions on verso or recto; some items bear printed caption labels attached to verso. Some items are mounted; some items are matted. Some items are duplicates.

Terms of Use (note)

• Collection is restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

• Kwame Brathwaite, born in New York in 1938, began his photographic career during the late 1950s as a jazz photographer. During the 1960s, he began to document the Black Arts Movement in Harlem, and the black consciousness movement as represented by the cultural and political events and individuals he photographed. After a visit to Africa in 1968, where he photographed in West and East Africa, he expanded his focus to include the cultural and political events and activities of both continental Africans and persons of African descent in the Western Hemisphere.

Call Number

Sc Photo Portfolio (Brathwaite, K.)

OCLC

706696884

Author

Brathwaite, Kwame, 1938-2023, photographer.

Title

Photographs [graphic] / Kwame Brathwaite.

Imprint

1958-[1995]

Terms Of Use

Collection is restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

Kwame Brathwaite, born in New York in 1938, began his photographic career during the late 1950s as a jazz photographer. During the 1960s, he began to document the Black Arts Movement in Harlem, and the black consciousness movement as represented by the cultural and political events and individuals he photographed. After a visit to Africa in 1968, where he photographed in West and East Africa, he expanded his focus to include the cultural and political events and activities of both continental Africans and persons of African descent in the Western Hemisphere.

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Sc Photo Portfolio (Brathwaite, K.)