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Greg Tate and Arthur Jafa on Ming Smith’s “Acts of Love” in Photography

In the 1970s, Smith immersed herself in jazz music, producing images with her signature poetic blur—and exploring what Tate and Jafa call the “maroon fugitivity” of Black postmodern life.

At Least They’ll See the Black

In two recent films, Kahlil Joseph and Arthur Jafa consider the poetics of African American life.

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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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