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'Black is Beautiful' photographer Kwame Brathwaite dies at 85.

Kwame Brathwaite, the photographer who helped define the aesthetics of the "Black is Beautiful" movement of the 1960s and beyond, has died at the age of 85. Brathwaite's work has been the subject of resurgent interest from curators, historians and collectors in recent years, and his first major institutional retrospective made its debut in 2019. Brathwaite's focus on jazz shifted to other forms of popular Black music in the 1970s, and he continued to explore and develop his mode of photography, all through the lens of the "Black is Beautiful" ethos.

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'Black is Beautiful' Photographer Kwame Brathwaite Dies at 85

Photographer Kwame Brathwaite, who helped popularize the "Black is Beautiful" movement of the 1960s, has died at the age of 85. Brathwaite's work embraced Black power and beauty, chronicling events such as The Motown Revue at the Apollo in 1963, The Jackson 5's first trip to Africa in 1974, and the legendary Foreman-Ali fight, The Rumble in the Jungle. His series of photographs of Grandassaland Models was inspired by the term Grandassa, coined by Carlos Cooks, founder of the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement, to inspire Black women to embrace their African heritage rather than try to emulate white women by straightening their hair.

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