The Black Index

The Black IndexCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9783777435961 Year: 2022 Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH Description: The artists featured in The Black Index Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas build upon the tradition of Black self representation as an antidote to colonialist images. Their translations of photography challenge the medium's long assumed qualities of objectivity, legibility, and identification.

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9783777435961
Year: 2022
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH


Description:
The artists featured in The Black Index-Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas-build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to colonialist images. Their translations of photography challenge the medium's long-assumed qualities of objectivity, legibility, and identification.




Using drawing, sculpture, and digital technology to transform the recorded image, these artists question our reliance on photography as a privileged source for documentary objectivity and historical understanding. The works featured here offer an alternative practice-a Black index. In the hands of these six artists, the index still serves as a finding aid for information about Black subjects, but it also challenges viewers' desire for classification and, instead, redirects them toward alternative information.