Portraiture was a service that was once reserved for people of wealthy or royal status. It later evo

Portraiture was a service that was once reserved for people of wealthy or royal status. It later evolved and became more accessible as a means of capturing one’s essence, preserving  age, style, character, and time itself with the stroke of a brush or the click of a camera. Artists of the Black power movement used portraiture as a means of controlling their own narrative and increasing Black representation in a eurocentric world.  Posted by Emoni BarakaDawoud Bey, A Man in a Bowler Hat, 1976, printed by 1979. Silver gelatin print, 6 x 9 in. (15.5 x 23 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Restricted gift of Kevin and Jeanne Poorman. © Dawoud Bey. (Image Courtesy of Stephen Daiter Gallery)Emma Amos (American, born 1938). Eva the Babysitter, 1973. Oil oncanvas, 50 x 34 in. (127 x 86.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist and RyanLee Gallery, New York. © Emma Amos. Licensed by VAGA at ArtistsRights Society (ARS), New YorkBarkley L. Hendricks, (American, 1945–2017). Blood (Donald Formey), 1975. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of Dr. Kenneth Montague | The Wedge Collection, Toronto. © Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks. Courtesy of the artist’sestate and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum)Lorraine O'Grady (American, born 1934). Art Is (Girlfriends Times Two), 1983/2009. Chromogenic print. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY. © 2017 Lorraine O’Grady / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkWadsworth A. Jarrell (American, born 1929). Revolutionary (Angela Davis), 1971. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of R. M. Atwater, Anna Wolfrom Dove, Alice Fiebiger, Joseph Fiebiger, Belle Campbell Harris, and Emma L. Hyde, by exchange, Designated Purchase Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund, 2012.80.18. © Wadsworth A. Jarrell. Herb Robinson (American). Miles Davis, 1960’s. Gelatin silver print on paper. Collection of the Artist. © Herb RobinsonBob Thompson, LeRoi Jones and his Family, 1964. Oil on canvas. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966. © Estate of Bob Thompson; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY (Photography by Lee Stalsworth) -- source link

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