Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman and Abraham Lincoln are a few of the major figures people think of when it comes to the Civil War. But you won’t find any of these people featured in the California African American Museum’s new exhibit. Instead, “African American Military Portraits from the American Civil War” presents photographs of black [...]
California African American Museum presents: ‘African American Military Portraits from the American Civil War’
October 9, 2012 | Posted by
‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ Photography Exhibition Explores the 50-Year Old Civil Rights Struggle
September 17, 2012 | Posted by
On view from September 14, 2012 – January 6, 2013 at the International Center of Photography, Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life offers an unprecedented and comprehensive historical overview of the pictorial response to apartheid that has never been undertaken by any other museum. Through its images, this exhibition [...]
Six Year-Old Nigerian Boy an Accomplished Photographer
September 2, 2012 | Posted by
Master Morakinyo Akin-Jimoh is six years old. But he has already carved a niche for himself in the art of photography. He tells SUCCESS NWOGU how he developed his passion. It is not unusual to see photographers at events, taking pictures either for documentation of the proceedings or for commercial purpose. But the sight of [...]
‘Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers’
August 22, 2012 | Posted by
It is unlikely that many people would be familiar with the name Jules Lion. A free man of color, Lion established the first daguerrean studio in New Orleans and, in doing so, became somewhat of a local celebrity. Alone, his accomplishments might have been of little interest. But the fact that he did this in the early spring [...]
Young Photographer Awol Erizku Hates Being Labeled ‘Urban’
July 21, 2012 | Posted by
You can call Awol Erizku’s art history-inflected photographs whatever you want — just don’t call them “urban.” “I hate when people label my work urban,” he says. “Just because it’s African American subjects or people of color it’s not urban.” His recent Renaissance-inspired portraits at Hasted Kraeutler replace the stiff aristocrats of centuries past with [...]
