#Repost @decarava with @get_repost ・・・ “The choice of whether, and how, to make art “black” was a lively issue. And the [Soul Of A Nation] — organized by Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley, curators @tate , and overseen in New York by Ashley James , an assistant curator @brooklynmuseum — is, among many other things, about the varied and inventive solutions artists came up with. Certain early responses feel almost counterintuitive. In the same years that [Norman] Lewis was injecting topical stories into abstract painting, Roy DeCarava was experimenting with making photographic portraiture abstract. The face of the young woman in his famous image “Mississippi Freedom Marcher, Washington, D.C., 1963” has the weight of a monument. But a shot of John Coltrane from the same year has an aura-like blur, and a picture called “Face Out of Focus” is a featureless glow, undefined by race or gender.” — Holland Cotter, The New York Times Coltrane on Soprano, 1963. (c) 2018 The Estate of Roy DeCarava. All Rights Reserved. #soulofanation #soulofanationbkm #roydecarava #blackart #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #johncoltrane #coltrane #jazz #jazzphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/BqOUlibHVHi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=f1u4bhgoviuv
