The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion
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In this book, curator and critic, Antwaun Sargent addresses a radical transformation taking place in fashion and art today. Fifteen artist portfolios feature the brightest contemporary fashion photographers, including Tyler Mitchell, the first Black photographer hired to shoot a cover story for American Vogue; Campbell Addy, founder of the Nii Agency and journal; and Nadine Ijewere, whose early series title, The Misrepresentation of Representation, says it all. 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. Photographs by Campbell Addy, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Micaiah Carter, Awol Erizku, Nadine Ijewere, Quil Lemons, Namsa Leuba, Renell Medrano, Tyler Mitchell, Jamal Nxedlana, Daniel Obasi, Ruth Ossai, Adrienne Raquel, Dana Scruggs, and Stephen Tayo are presented. As well as conversations with Shaniqwa Jarvis, Mickalene Thomas, and Deborah Willis.
Editors' Note
Antwaun Sargent is an American writer, editor and curator, living in New York City. Sargent is the author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion and the editor of Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists. He has championed Black art and fashion by young Black photographers, and has built a youth culture around it. Sargent is a director at Gagosian Gallery.
Details
In this book, curator and critic, Antwaun Sargent addresses a radical transformation taking place in fashion and art today. Fifteen artist portfolios feature the brightest contemporary fashion photographers, including Tyler Mitchell, the first Black photographer hired to shoot a cover story for American Vogue; Campbell Addy, founder of the Nii Agency and journal; and Nadine Ijewere, whose early series title, The Misrepresentation of Representation, says it all. 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. Photographs by Campbell Addy, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Micaiah Carter, Awol Erizku, Nadine Ijewere, Quil Lemons, Namsa Leuba, Renell Medrano, Tyler Mitchell, Jamal Nxedlana, Daniel Obasi, Ruth Ossai, Adrienne Raquel, Dana Scruggs, and Stephen Tayo are presented. As well as conversations with Shaniqwa Jarvis, Mickalene Thomas, and Deborah Willis.
Editors' Note
Antwaun Sargent is an American writer, editor and curator, living in New York City. Sargent is the author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion and the editor of Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists. He has championed Black art and fashion by young Black photographers, and has built a youth culture around it. Sargent is a director at Gagosian Gallery.
Details
In this book, curator and critic, Antwaun Sargent addresses a radical transformation taking place in fashion and art today. Fifteen artist portfolios feature the brightest contemporary fashion photographers, including Tyler Mitchell, the first Black photographer hired to shoot a cover story for American Vogue; Campbell Addy, founder of the Nii Agency and journal; and Nadine Ijewere, whose early series title, The Misrepresentation of Representation, says it all. 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. Photographs by Campbell Addy, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Micaiah Carter, Awol Erizku, Nadine Ijewere, Quil Lemons, Namsa Leuba, Renell Medrano, Tyler Mitchell, Jamal Nxedlana, Daniel Obasi, Ruth Ossai, Adrienne Raquel, Dana Scruggs, and Stephen Tayo are presented. As well as conversations with Shaniqwa Jarvis, Mickalene Thomas, and Deborah Willis.
Editors' Note
Antwaun Sargent is an American writer, editor and curator, living in New York City. Sargent is the author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion and the editor of Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists. He has championed Black art and fashion by young Black photographers, and has built a youth culture around it. Sargent is a director at Gagosian Gallery.
Reviews
“The artists of The New Black Vanguard are telling stories of social and political inclusivity, advocating for a wider celebration of beauty and the self―a powerful antidote for a group previously marginalized in mainstream fashion and culture.” —Gemma Fletcher, Elephant
“With photos illuminating life in Black America and the African Diaspora, these artists are crafting a new way of speaking visually about politics and representation.” —Devine Blacksher, The Cut
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304 Pages
Published by Aperture
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