Research Catalog

Title

Kwame Brathwaite : black is beautiful / [texts by Kwame Brathwaite, Tanisha C. Ford, and Deborah Willis].

Author

Brathwaite, Kwame, 1938-2023

Publication

• New York, NY : Aperture, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ford, Tanisha C.
• Willis, Deborah, 1948-

Description

143 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Summary

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

Black is beautiful

Subjects

• African American arts
• African Americans
• Photographers
• African Americans > Intellectual life
• African American photographers
• Exhibition catalogs
• Illustrated works
• History
• Exhibition, pictorial works
• 1900-1999
• USA
• New York, NY
• Schwarze
• Porträtfotografie
• Harlem renaissance
• Afroamerikanismus
• United States
• New York (State) > New York
• Harlem Renaissance > Exhibitions
• African American arts > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century > Sources > Exhibitions
• African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century > Exhibitions
• African Americans > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Photographers > United States > Biography > Exhibitions
• African American photographers > Biography > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Brathwaite, Kwame 1938-
• Brathwaite, Kwame, 1938- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• exhibition catalogs.
• Illustrated works
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition, pictorial works.
• History.
• Illustrated works.
• Ouvrages illustrés.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Coincides with a touring exhibition of Brathwaite's work May 2019

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references

Contents

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

ISBN

• 9781597114431
• 159711443X

LCCN

• 2018054495
• 40029314879

OCLC

• on1050337685
• 1050337685
• SCSB-9359863

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library