James Baldwin - Author (Primary Title)
Anthony Barboza, American, born 1944 (Artist)
Already an accomplished fashion and portrait photographer for magazines like Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Essence, and Ebony, Barboza began his Black Borders series in the mid-1970s as a way to make portraits of people he admired on his own terms, rather than for specific editorial assignments. He photographed everyone from photographers and painters he admired, such as Imogen Cunningham and Norman Lewis, to pop icons like Michael Jackson. For his portrait of James Baldwin, Barboza directed studio lights from various directions to create a diffuse, luminous pattern that suggests energy radiating from the author. Barboza recalls that he first read Baldwin’s work shortly after he joined Kamoinge, when he was nineteen and new to the city—a particularly vulnerable moment in his life.
"Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop", VMFA, February 1, 2020 - June 14, 2020
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