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The Arts Intel Report

Black is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite

Oct 8, 2021 – Jan 16, 2022
5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202, United States

It’s not every day that activists on the front lines of change are also the ones documenting that change. Promoting black nationalist beauty principles, Kwame Brathwaite, an activist and photographer, was not only a major voice in the 1960s Black is Beautiful movement, he simultaneously immortalized it with his lens. —J.V.

Grandassa Model on car during Marcus Garvey Day celebration, Harlem, ca. 1968; photograph by Kwame Brathwaite; courtesy of the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles.