Seeing Dark Matter

a tumblr exploring black diasporic visual culture across time and space The Codex, Vol. III of III Curated by @jmjafrx (about; contact)

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Awelewa by  Eyitayo Alagbe

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Adekunle Adeleke 

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Fela dancer in Paris, 1981

Michael Putland

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Naledi Tshegofatso Modupi

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A pregnant Lauryn Hill in NYC (1997).

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Roman Sulyagin

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Abbott Elementary star and creator, Quinta Brunson, graces the cover of The Wrap. Photography by Corina Marie.

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Madame Magassouba, Porte de Clignancourt (Paris, 2003) - Judith Joy Ross

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Natalie Shau –  “Sacred Place”

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Jeremias Schultz, Portrait of a Lady Holding an Orange Blossom, mid-18th century.

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Indian Market, Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Photographer: Nat N. Dodge

Date: 1953

Negative Number: 106536

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Nigerian Girls, 1970s Vintage Nigeria

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Badioure,sur la transgambienne. #badioure #ziguinchor #casamance #senegal🇸🇳 #senepixel (à Ziguinchor) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeyGkJIrqmZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Singer Diana Ross poses for a portrait in 1984 in Los Angeles, California.

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The duality in this work by Beauford Delaney parallels his personal life. As a modernist painter remembered for his influence during the Harlem Renaissance, Delaney faced prejudices as a Black, gay man who lived in Tennessee, New York and France throughout his lifetime.

In this painting, a Fang reliquary figure, associated with African rituals that honor ancestors in order to ensure continuity between the living and the dead, is inserted into a modernist still-life composition. Perhaps a sign of Delaney’s interest in the ideas of philosopher Alain Locke, such as Pan Africanism, which encouraged African American artists to turn away from European convention and take inspiration from their African roots.

Today, Delaney’s legacy continues through the work of younger artists—some of whom are Black or part of the #LGBTQ+ community—and draw on their identity and heritage in their own art. #Pride

📷 Beauford Delaney (American, 1901-1979). Untitled (Fang Sculpture, Crow and Fruit), 1945. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Fund for African American Art in honor of Arnold Lehman, A. Augustus Healy Fund and Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 2014.73. © artist or artist’s estate

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O ORÁCULO (2022)