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Books we recommend: The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion By Antwaun Sargent
the visura media blog
Jan 11, 2020
In a richly illustrated essay, Sargent opens up the conversation around the role of the black body in the marketplace; the cross-pollination between art, fashion, and culture in constructing an image; and the institutional barriers that have historically been an impediment to black photographers participating more fully in the fashion (and art) industries.
Fifteen artist portfolios feature the brightest contemporary fashion photographers. Alongside a series of conversations between generations, their images and stories chart the history of inclusion, and exclusion, in the creation of the commercial black image, while simultaneously proposing a brilliantly reenvisioned future.
Antwaun Sargent is an independent writer, curator, and critic whose work has been published in the New Yorker, New York Times, W, Vogue, VICE, and various museum catalogues, among other publications.
The publication, The New Black Vanguard, is presented in partnership with Airbnb Magazine.
Text from the About description published on the Aperture website
The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion