The New York City photographer chronicled Black life and culture, documenting beauty pageants, sporting events and stars including James Brown and Muhammad Ali.
While toiling away in his Harlem darkroom, Mr. Brathwaite developed processing techniques that helped him illuminate Black skin on film. The resulting photos amplified and uplifted the “Black Is Beautiful” movement, which he helped propel in the 1960s while organizing fashion shows that championed Black beauty, pride and solidarity in the midst of the civil rights movement.
In 1972, he photographed the Wattstax benefit concert in Los Angeles, snapping a picture of Isaac Hayes — sporting— that the soul singer used for an album cover. Two years later, Mr. Brathwaite accompanied the Jackson 5 on their first African tour and shot the Rumble in the Jungle, heavyweight championship fight between Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire .
, which put on jazz performances, art exhibitions and eventually fashion shows, including what was arguably Mr. Brathwaite’s most influential project, the “Naturally ’62” pageant.Organized in January 1962 at a Harlem night club named Purple Manor, the show was a celebration of Black beauty and marked the debut of an all-Black troupe called the Grandassa Models. The group was named after Grandassaland, a term that black nationalist Carlos A. Cooks, one of Mr.
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