Black History Month is February in the United States and Canada, and
October in the United Kingdom and Europe. It may be July right now, but
if you';re interested in a subject, there';s no reason not to get more
deeply into it all year round. This is underscored by the opening, this
month, of Getty Images'; Black History and Culture Collection. As
Petapixel';s Matt Growcoot writes, it contains "30,000 rarely seen
images of the Black diaspora in the United Kingdom and the United
States that date back to the 19th century," drawing from the domains of "politics, sport, music, culture, military, and celebrity."
In the Black History and Culture Collection you';ll find pictures of
cultural figures like Duke Ellington and Jay-Z, Jack Johnson, Venus and
Serena Williams, Sojourner Truth, and Bernardine Evaristo. These names
only hint at the range of the archive, which you can also browse by
category tags: "civil rights," "governance," and "sports," to name a
few examples, but also "families," "fashion," and "hair."
There are, of course, an enormous number of photos filed under
"American Culture," which would itself be unimaginable without the contributions of the people documented. But the same could be said of
the other side of the pond; hence the inclusion of a "Black British
Culture" label as well.
Creating the Black History and Culture Collection involved more than
just tagging photos. You can learn more about what went into it in the
short video above, which includes the voices of collaborators like NYU
Tisch School of the Arts'; Deborah Willis and the University of
Pennsylvania';s Tukufu Zuberi. The artist Renata Cherlise speaks of the
value of the images of famous people, but also those of everyday life
as it was lived in places and times like Harlem';s Savoy Ballroom in
the nineteen-forties. Whether or not your own heritage is tied into
this history, you stand to learn a great deal from it. As Zuberi put
sit, "Black culture is the original human culture, so there is no
culture that is alien to black culture. The future of black culture is
the future of human culture. Let';s go."
via Petapixel/Colossal
https://www.openculture.com/2022/07/30000-photographs-of-black-history-culture-are-available-online-in-a-new-getty-images-archive.html
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