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The New Black Vanguard
Oct 05, 2022 - Mar 05, 2023
Wednesday - Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, 12-5 p.m.
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This fall, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) presents the first and only West Coast exhibition of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion. This exhibition highlights the work of 15 contemporary fashion photographers—from London to Lagos, New York to Johannesburg—whose images present radically new perspectives on the medium of photography and art, race and beauty, and gender and power.
Curated by renowned New York curator and critic, Antwaun Sargent and organized by Aperture, New York, the exhibition includes over 100 select works from groundbreaking artists, including Tyler Mitchell, the first Black photographer hired to shoot a cover story for American Vogue.
The work of this international community of Black photographers has been widely viewed and is reinfusing the contemporary visual vocabulary around beauty and the body with new vitality and substance.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
More than 100 cutting edge photographs come to the Museum of the African Diaspora this October as The New Black Vanguard. The exhibition catalogues the cutting edge of fashion and photography, focusing on the global Black creatives at the center of the contemporary boom in popular culture. Many of these images index history, including the many Black trailblazers who graced the covers of exclusive magazines for the first time. Yet, the images also propose the future by glossing a range of the latest tastes in photography, fashion, and art. Flash into MoAD this fall to see the movement for yourself, of The New Black Vanguard.
Luke Williams
Contributing Writer
MOAD - Museum of the African Diaspora