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A photograph of a bloody hand on a police shield underscores the ongoing struggle for African American citizenship.
In protest of policing black women and girls’ hair, Solange’s album cover image is a powerful assertion of ownership.
Amid the fight for desegregation, a revelatory portrait by Robert Frank conveys the freedom of travel.
Elizabeth Huber reflects on Ken Gonzales-Day and the history of lynching in California.
Merging football with twentieth-century sharecropping, Hank Willis Thomas traces the commodification of black bodies.
How do Bruce Davidson’s photographs of the Selma march in 1965 find their echo in the modern debate over voter ID laws?
The multidisciplinary artist investigates myths of black masculinity through costume, performance, and an iconic basketball jersey.
The curator of the London gallery Autograph ABP discusses the intersections between photography, human rights, and identity politics.
Catherine Gund, Shola Lynch, and Franklin Leonard discuss pioneers of cinema, African American archives, and the definitive films about black experience.
Was Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s collaborative photobook a luxury object or a ruthless indictment of American culture?
Routinely excluded from the mainstream art world, in the 1960s, a group of African American photographers formed a collective to promote their work.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
