africansouljah:

Nas Queensbridge Houses, NYC 1993

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standingatthefence:

Dawoud Bey, Portraits 1975-1995, USA

I am mindful that portraiture has been a way for a select group of people — the gentrified class — to perpetuate their images. Museums all over the world are filled with portraits that moneyed people were able to commission of themselves, and thus perpetuate themselves throughout the ages. I like to bring the same attention to ordinary people, and people of color. I particularly like to give this attention to black people, as a people whose images have been stereotyped and ridiculed extensively in this country.

Dawoud Bey, “The Unflinching Gaze,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 5, 1994), p. B104

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