Past Exhibition

Facing Forward
Photographic Portraits from the Collection
Emma Wood Gallery
August 15, 2021

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Ricki Morse – Manuel Alvarez Bravo

This captivating self-portrait portrays the artist Kwame Brathwaite during the early 1960s when he, his family and colleagues were popularizing the still-influential phrase, “Black is Beautiful.” The immediacy of the image—reinforced by its square format, the artist’s hand gesture, intent gaze and strategic placement of the camera—suggests that Brathwaite is just about to speak to the viewer who is perhaps having their own portrait taken. – SBMA Label, Facing Forward: Photographic Portraits from the Collection, 2021

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