Hank Willis Thomas photo exhibition at Jack Shainman gallery installation view #1 “Hank Willis Thomas‘ solo exhibition ‘What Goes Without Saying‘, will continue [from] November 13th and run through the […]
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Loud, Proud and Painted ‘Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe,’ at Brooklyn Museum
Mickalene Thomas’s brash, exuberant paintings don’t care what you think of them; they are much too busy simply — or not so simply — being themselves. Their sense of independence […]
Alfred Kumalo, South African photographer who illustrated the brutalities of apartheid, dies
Legendary South African photojournalist, Alfred Kumalo. Picture: Facebook Govan Whittles | one day ago Alfred Kumalo, a South African photographer whose work chronicled the brutalities of apartheid and the rise […]
“How the Other Half Lived” Teenie Harris documents Pittsburgh
“EVERY grand city—and Pittsburgh was indeed once grand—should have a photographer like Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris (1908-1998). Many 20th-century photographers seized on Pittsburgh as a metaphor for the ravages of industry […]
Carrie Mae Weems featured in New York Times
“When Carrie Mae Weems was first teaching photography in the late 1980s at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, she was struck by the difference in how her male and female students […]
Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo’s best photograph: Ghana’s computer dump
“In January 2008, I went to Accra in Ghana to cover the African Cup of Nations. While I was there, I met a taxi driver who wanted to show me […]
Swiss-Guinean Photographer Fall Fashion Shoot
“For this installment of ‘Out of the Box,’ The Cut sent a trunk full of fall knits to Swiss photographer Namsa Leuba. Inspired in part by her Guinean mother, the […]
Reality TV Star Helps Kids “Dream Big” with Photos
“Upolu, Samoa, the South Pacific island where Sabrina Thompson fought it out as a contestant on CBS’s reality series “Survivor,” was worlds away from the classroom in Brownsville, Brooklyn where […]
The Gordon Parks: 100 Years Exhibit @ the ICP
From May 18, 2012 to January 6, 2013, the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York is exhibiting Gordon Parks: 100 Years. From the ICP gallery website: “The window […]
Remembering Roy DeCarava
On October 27, 2009, groundbreaking photographer and professor Roy DeCarava passed away, leaving behind an unparalleled legacy of achievements in Black photography. As the first African American photographer to receive […]