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Kwame Brathwaite : black is beautiful

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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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
Subject
  • Brathwaite, Kwame, 1938-2023 > Exhibitions
  • Brathwaite, Kwame 1938-
  • 1900-1999
  • Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
  • African American photographers > Biography > Exhibitions
  • Photographers > United States > Biography > Exhibitions
  • African Americans > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
  • African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • African American arts > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century > Sources > Exhibitions
  • Harlem Renaissance > Exhibitions
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
  • Photography
  • Photography, Artistic
  • African American arts
  • African American photographers
  • African Americans
  • African Americans > Intellectual life
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Photographers
  • Afroamerikanismus
  • Harlem renaissance
  • Porträtfotografie
  • Schwarze
  • New York (State) > New York
  • United States
  • New York, NY
  • USA
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