Portraits from the Aperture-published book by KwameBrathwaite, Black is Beautiful
, the very slogan the New York-born photographer helped to popularise after he featured it on posters used to promote a 1962 Harlem pageant for African-American women organised with his brother, Elombe Brath.
is the first monograph to document Brathwaite’s decades-long career, long overdue for the photographer who is now in his eighties and still based in New York. Brathwaite has long been a pioneer of promoting black creativity: the 1962 pageant,, was held the same year that the two brothers founded Grandassa Models, a modelling agency for African-American women, and in 1956 they had started the collective African Jazz Arts Society and Studios.
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