Black Quote by Carrie Mae Weems

For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place...…

— Bell Hooks

Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people…

— Kehinde Wiley

When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or having themselves…

— Amy Sherald

To me, to neuter a photograph of person of color in some general sense is to continue to forget the complexity of the black…

— RaMell Ross

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

— August Wilson

When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption…

— Bell Hooks

“In this fleeting life, there is nothing stronger than a visual idea or moment stopped in time forever. And nothing does this better than…

— Richard Olsenius

That's the trouble with, I think, my - the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, "These are pretty pictures…

— Kehinde Wiley

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not…

— Ansel Adams

If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.

— Jesmyn Ward

My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.

— Kehinde Wiley