Photography & the Black Arts Movement – The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Episode No. 725 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast options curators Philip Brookman and Deborah Willis (and a cameo, of kinds, from artist Anthony Barboza).

Brookman and Willis are the co-curators of “Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-85” on the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The exhibition considers images’s engagement with the post-war cultural and aesthetic motion that celebrated Black historical past, identification, and sweetness, and which frequently influenced the broader civil rights motion of which it was an element. The exhibition options 150 works from photographers and different artists who used images of their work, reminiscent of in collage or assemblage. It is on view by January 11, 2026. An glorious catalogue was printed by the NGA In affiliation with Yale University Press. Amazon and Bookshop provide it for about $60.

Instagram: Philip Brookman, Anthony Barboza, Deborah Willis, Tyler Green.

Air date: September 25, 2025.

Anthony Barboza, Pensacola, Florida, 1966.

Anthony Barboza, Liberty – Pensacola, Florida, 1966.

Coreen Simpson, Self-Portrait, 1978.

LaToya Ruby Frazier, Momme, 2018.

LaToya Ruby Frazier, Momme, 2008.

James E. Hinton, Two Women Sitting on a New York City Subway, 1966.

Charles “Teenie” Harris, James Baldwin being interviewed on tv…, 1963/2025.

Romare Bearden, one hundred and tenth Street Harlem Blues, 1972.

Ralph Arnold, Above this Earth, Games, Games, 1968.

Ralph Arnold, Soul Box, 1969.

Barbara DuMetz, Kraft Foods commercial, 1977.

Bob Fletcher, Placards of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner…, 1964.

Horace Ové, Walking Proud, Notting Hill Carnival, ca. 1972/2023.

Louis Draper, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, July 1971.