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Kwame Brathwaite’s photography work highlighting the beauty of Black culture is now being featured at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA).
The “Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite” exhibition, a touring show, initially went on tour in 2019 and is now on being featured at the DIA through January 2022, according to an article from WDET.
The exhibition showcases over 40 photos by Brathwaite, who used his own camera as an activist tool to ensure that Black beauty made its way into popular culture, mainstream look in the 1960s, the article added.
Although the studio portraits he took of Black models are in vibrant hues and colors, his black-and-white jazz performances are just as dazzling and bring the viewer inside the subject’s life — even just for a moment.
“You feel like you’re right there in the moment listening to that music,” says DIA curator of photography Nancy Barr in the article. “[Brathwaite] has a way of really getting you to see things from his perspective.”
“Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite” is free to view with admission. For more details, visit the DIA’s website.
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