Photographing Miles Davis

Anthony Barboza is a photographer, historian, artist, and writer. His photography of jazz musicians appears in his book Black Borders (1980). His conceptual photographic artwork exhibition, Black Dreams/White Sheets, toured internationally and was shown for the first time in New York City at the Bill Hodges Gallery in late 2010.

Barry Maxwell teaches at Cornell University in the fields of comparative literature and American studies. He is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Modernities. An earlier piece on Miles Davis (and David Hammons and Sun Ra) appears in Diaspora Memory Place: David Hammons/Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons/Pamela Z, edited by Cheryl Finley and Salah M. Hassan (2008).