Kwame Brathwaite, who died recently, helped popularize the phrase “Black is beautiful.” Read about the photographer’s titanic impact on fashion and identity:
to major publications. He began travelling overseas with his camera. He went to Ghana with the Jackson 5; he documented the Ali-Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle,” in Kinshasa. He became the unofficial house photographer of the Apollo Theatre. He continued to shoot fashion—sometimes in classically composed portraits, and sometimes in pictures that fused his instinct for documentary with his interest in fashion.
Brathwaite kept travelling and shooting constantly until a few years ago. Even after his retirement, though, he would bring out his camera on occasion. “He was always working,” his son said. “That was his fun.” ♦
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