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Musings of an Urban Wild Woman

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jungle fever by spike lee, 1991

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Camera angles/heights that add interesting rhythm and movement to these street shots.

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Jamel Shabazz Documenting New York in the 1980′s

African American Icons

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“Rush Hour” 1988 Jamel Shabazz

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Roy DeCarava

Self portrait, 1956

Roy DeCarava studied painting for two years after high-school. He started photography by using it as a way to document his paintings and to come up with ideas for them. Later he’d use his camera to document the daily lives of African Americans in Harlem in an artistic manner. He had become one of the first to be unconcerned with sociological or political statements while pointing his camera at his subjects. Creative expression and the desire to make art were his only drive.

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Finding it really important to study black and white images in order to understand the power of light and darkness especially in telling the stories of black lives.

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Roy DeCarava - Sun and Shade, 1952

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Observing darkness

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How to Dress Well “It was You”

Music that i liked and still like <3 Sometimes I don’t want to be current

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Kahlil Joseph feat music by Flying Lotus “Until the Quiet Comes”

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Favorite shots from Sundance Documentary “The Roper”

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The Roper - Sundance Documentary Short 2013

Directors - Ewan McNicol & Anna Sandilands

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Hiro Murai killin' it in the (music video) game.

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Documenting NYC Urban Landscape

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Roger Perry’s long out-of-print The Writing on the Wall—–a collection of photos charting London’s early graffiti scene—is being republished this week. Here, George Stewart-Lockhart, an art historian and publisher who wrote the extensive new foreword for the re-release, takes us through a few of his most striking images.

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Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center present Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, a walkable month-long art exhibition of four community-based art commissions by Xenobia Bailey, Simone Leigh, Otabenga Jones & Associates, and Bradford Young. Black Radical Brooklyn launches from the site of Weeksville, a Brooklyn community established by free and formerly enslaved Black citizens 11 years after abolition in New York State. Black Radical Brooklyn draws inspiration not only from this story–achieving self-determination through the claiming and holding of a neighborhood–but also from radical local battles for land and dignity from the 1960s to today.

Xenobia Bailey in collaboration with Boys & Girls High School

  Bradford Young in collaboration with Bethel Tabernacle AME Church

  Otabenga Jones & Associates in collaboration with Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium

Simone Leigh in collaboration with Stuyvesant Mansion

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Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

Tyler Kent White (via allwereallyneedisweed)

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Ivan Forde Transformation 2013

This series of photographs by Ivan Forde represents the process that the reader’s mind goes through when reading Milton’s Paradise Lost… (read more @ juxtapoz)