I'd found a number of portraits that depict their black subjects as real people, not caricatures, and Joseph Johnson's was one of those. It was etched by John Thomas Smith in 1815 and appeared in ...

I found people all over the country, black photographers, making mostly portraits of black people but also some of white abolitionists." Incidentally, Willis first wrote about Augustus Washington ...

Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...

Christina Nwabugo Olivia Lifungula “The Self Portrait is a celebration of Black women photographers, demonstrating the nuance of not only the stories we tell, but the people behind the lens telling ...