I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am at the Wadsworth Atheneum counters the racist images of Black Americans that were presented in mainstream media in the 19th century.
Briana Ellis-Gibbs
Briana Ellis-Gibbs is a writer and photo editor from Queens, NY, with a BA in English Literature from Howard University and an MA in journalism from Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. She is interested in the intersection of photography, art, and history.
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Using a Nigerian Secret Writing System to Expose Social Injustices
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The Renewed Urgency of Ernest Withers’s Photographs
In Opa-locka, Florida, an exhibition of Withers’s civil rights images demonstrates that the Black history the state is trying to erase is indisputable and factual.
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Empathy Is at the Heart of Sleeping Beauties
Sleeping Beauties at New York Life Gallery immerses viewers in a collection of paintings that bring mostly overlooked artists back to life.
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Photographer Frank Stewart Gets His First Museum Retrospective
Ahead of the exhibition, Hyperallergic spoke to the artist about his images of jazz musicians and everyday Black individuals in moments of closeness and stillness.
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Feeling at Home at New York’s Contemporary African Art Fair
The ninth edition of the 1-54 fair in Harlem made me proud of my Blackness, a feeling most art spaces don’t often inspire.
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The Black Comic Book Festival Is an Act of Resistance
At the annual Schomburg Center event, I didn’t have to go searching for books made by and for me — because they were all around me.
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The Never-Before-Seen Photographs of Barkley L. Hendricks
Most people know the artist for his paintings gracefully embodying the Black experience in America. In an upcoming exhibition, his photographs take center stage.
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Artists Show What They Can Do With a Google Phone’s Camera
Works by 21 photographers are now on view in Manhattan for the seventh season and 100th project coming out of the Google Pixel Creator Labs.
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Dread Scott’s Visual Ballad to Nina Simone
The artist talks to Hyperallergic ahead of his New York exhibition Goddam.
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Documenting the Black History Not Taught in Classrooms
The photographs in Renata Cherlise’s Black Archives capture Black people experiencing moments of love, joy, rest, leisure, and everyday life.
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Michelle Agins on Perseverance and Photographing Martin Luther King
The second Black woman ever hired as a New York Times staff photographer, Agins built her career at a time when photo editors gave very few assignments to women — much less to women of color.
