Kwame Brathwaite, photographer who encapsulated ‘Black is beautiful’ movement, has died, aged 85
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Kwame Brathwaite; Photographer; Black Is Beautiful Movement
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The New York photographer pioneered lighting and developing techniques that helped transformed how Black figures were photographed and seen
Kwame Brathwaite, the pioneering activist and photographer whose work helped define the aesthetics of the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960s and beyond, died on 1 April, aged 85. His son, Kwame Brathwaite, Jr, announced his father’s death in an Instagram post that read in part, “I am deeply saddened to share that my Baba, the patriarch of our family, our rock and my hero has transitioned.”
Brathwaite’s work has been the subject of resurgent interest from curators, historians and collectors in recent years, and his first major institutional retrospective, which was organised by the Aperture Foundation, made its debut in 2019 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles before touring the country.
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