..., local articulation of black consciousness on Chicago’s South Side in 1967 in order to illustrate how local dimensions of black consciousness relate to the making of a global black consciousness. Crawford’s starting point is a photo archive of Bob Crawford, her father, a photographer who worked...

...Isaiah Matthew Wooden Photographer and video artist LaToya Ruby Frazier’s The Notion of Family series (2001–14) strikingly looks forward through the past. The project traces its origins to Frazier’s teen years growing up in the industrial suburb of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a once-thriving mill town...

...Anita N. Bateman This article contextualizes the work of contemporary photographer Aïda Muluneh within a broader discussion of Ethiopia’s recent political climate. The author argues that Muluneh visually interprets narratives of place, exile, and agency, with particular regard to issues...

... in photography for a few years and traveled with a couple of cameras and several lenses that summer. He took advantage of these tools during the festival, meeting and photographing people such as Eldridge Cleaver, then in exile in Algeria, and Julia Wright, daughter of novelist Richard Wright. Wade’s visual...

... Illness as Metaphor Donald Rodney s X-ray Photographs Jareh Das Das Nka 89 In The Mask of the Beggar, a nameless artist seeks mutualities between cultures. He seeks cross-cultural realities that would reverse a dominant code exercised now, or to be exercised in the future, by an individual state whose...

...Anthony Barboza; Barry Maxwell The musician Miles Davis, subject of a group of portrait photographs by Anthony Barboza, presents himself in the photographs as an armature of fashion objects. With reference to the work of Walter Benjamin and Giacomo Leopardi, this introduction to Barboza’s...

...Eddie Chambers Photographer Mia Gröndahl takes as her subject the people caught in the struggles and seismic changes taking place in countries and sites of tension, such as Egypt and Palestine. In ways markedly distinct from typical photojournalism, Gröndahl’s images show her to be a particularly...

... to borrow it (in my be photographed was a privilege they paid ing: "Leave other people's things be', "I can• absence), from my sister. I never saw the for, except friends, acquaintances and rela• not pay for the damned thing to be fixed.' damn camera again...

... qualities of both yet also has a life of its own. The most interesting aspect of this project was the photographs of couples by the well-known African American photographer and artist Coreen Simpson. Simpson was invited to photograph the couples and the final products of their collaboration. The process...

... of the Lumpenproletariat in our current moment of global capital. It takes up Zoe Leonard’s Analogue series (2007) and focuses on a sequence of photographs within it that represent the transnational traffic in used clothing— a circuit that links Shenzhen to Brooklyn to Kampala. With a close analysis of Leonard’s...

... Luther King Center, Atlanta, GA, 2000 Journal of Contempora ry African Art Lynching Photographs and Legacies of Lynching after 9/M Dora Apel oday when we look at lynching photo• In a series of four photographs of such a Chinese T graphs, we try...

...Hazel Carby US/UK's Special Relationship: The Culture of Torture in Abu Ghraib and Lynching Photographs Hazel Carby No matter where you are in the United States, American mind. Who knows where this will end? since two Boeing 767...

...James Allen Lynching Photographs A Collector's Reflection James Allen his is my best recollection of the first time I houses. Fittingly, behind, and at a distance from the T saw an image of a so-called lynching. It was brick children of the mansions were...

... photographer who worked with Okwui on The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life (Prestel, 2013). South African photographer Mikhael Subotzky, based in Johannesburg, showed work in Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography (Steidl, 2006...

...Lewis Watts In January 2013, I came to Paris for the first time in forty years to present work at the first Black Portraiture[s] conference. I had planned to photograph there but had no agenda. My interest was piqued on the train from Charles de Gaulle airport, when five young black men in hoodies...

... photographers in the art world, he worked with master artists, intellectuals, and photographers. Also in 1968, a group of black men—plus one woman— formed Essence Communications Inc. A momentous triangulation of the women’s liberation movement, the cultural nationalism of African American people in the United...

...Bill Gaskins This essay is an account of the production of the most reproduced photograph from Good And Bad Hair: Photographs by Bill Gaskins , my monograph on the role of hair styling in American culture through the lives of African Americans. The essay also recalls and unpacks a number...