Research Catalog

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Description

1. 172 items (1.6 cu. ft., 4 boxes); 28 x 36 cm. and smaller.

Summary

1. Collection depicts the activities of Pan-African, black liberation and cultural movements, local civil rights activities, and political and entertainment figures, from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, with the majority of the images dating from the late 1970s to mid-1990s.

Subject

1. Brath, Elombe
2. Portrait photographs > 1950-1999
3. Heads of state > Africa
4. African American models > New York (State) > New York
5. Anti-apartheid movements > United States
6. Demonstrations > United States
7. Music > Performance
8. Rites and ceremonies
9. Group portraits > 1960-1999
10. Black nationalism > United States
11. Heads of state > Caribbean Area
12. Pan-Africanism
13. African American musicians
14. African Americans > Civil rights
15. Sankara, Thomas
16. South Africa > Politics and government > 1989-1994
17. African American entertainers
18. Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 > Inauguration, 1994
19. Musicians > African
20. Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street) Anniversaries, etc
21. Congresses and conventions > Guinea > Conakry
22. Moore, Audley, 1898-
23. Dye coupler prints > 1980-1999
24. Gelatin silver prints > 1950-1999
25. Reggae musicians
26. African American singers

Genre/Form

1. Portrait photographs – 1950-1999.
2. Group portraits – 1960-1999.
3. Gelatin silver prints – 1950-1999.
4. Dye coupler prints – 1980-1999.

Call number

1. Sc Photo Portfolio (Brathwaite, K.)

Note

1. Title devised by cataloger.
2. Some photographs bear photographer's handstamp; some items bear photographer's signature on recto. Some items bear handwritten captions on verso or recto; some items bear printed caption labels attached to verso. Some items are mounted; some items are matted. Some items are duplicates.

Terms of use (note)

1. Collection is restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

1. Kwame Brathwaite, born in New York in 1938, began his photographic career during the late 1950s as a jazz photographer. During the 1960s, he began to document the Black Arts Movement in Harlem, and the black consciousness movement as represented by the cultural and political events and individuals he photographed. After a visit to Africa in 1968, where he photographed in West and East Africa, he expanded his focus to include the cultural and political events and activities of both continental Africans and persons of African descent in the Western Hemisphere.

Author

1. Brathwaite, Kwame, 1938-2023, photographer.

Title

1. Photographs [graphic] / Kwame Brathwaite.

Imprint

1. 1958-[1995]

Terms of use

1. Collection is restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

1. Kwame Brathwaite, born in New York in 1938, began his photographic career during the late 1950s as a jazz photographer. During the 1960s, he began to document the Black Arts Movement in Harlem, and the black consciousness movement as represented by the cultural and political events and individuals he photographed. After a visit to Africa in 1968, where he photographed in West and East Africa, he expanded his focus to include the cultural and political events and activities of both continental Africans and persons of African descent in the Western Hemisphere.

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Research call number

1. Sc Photo Portfolio (Brathwaite, K.)