Tag Archives: African-Americans

1979: Who’s the Commanding Officer Here?

Posted on September 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now (1979)

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1489: Versions

Posted on August 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Leonardo da Vinci: Lady with an Ermine [Cecilia Galleran] (1489–1490) Awol Erizku: Lady with a Pitbull (2009) Hans Holbein: Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling [probably Anne Lovell] (c. 1526-28) Frida Khalo: Self-Portrait with … Continue reading →

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1947: Mister

Posted on August 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

William Gottlieb: Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, NY (ca. Feb. 1947) (source)

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1979: James Baldwin’s Inkwell

Posted on August 22, 2017 by corvusfugit

Q. How do you see the role of the black American writer in particular? A. Well, you have to understand that presently you’re going to be obsolete, because America is going to be obsolete. But if one substitutes the word … Continue reading →

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1962: You’ll Lose a Good Thing

Posted on August 19, 2017 by corvusfugit

Bruce Davidson: Chicago, 1962. I like to think this is playing on the jukebox.

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1831: A Loud Noise in the Heavens

Posted on August 19, 2017 by corvusfugit

Nat Turner’s bible (source) And on the 12th of May, 1828, I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he … Continue reading →

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1918: Mysterious Island

Posted on August 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

N. C. Wyeth: Endpapers for a 1918 edition of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1874). The book, a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, recounts the adventures of five Union soldiers who escape their Confederate captors in a hot … Continue reading →

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1976: Kids and Comics

Posted on August 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

“12-year-old Freddie Lewis, left, and Marshall Beck, both of San Diego’s Normal Heights neighborhood, set aside superhero comics to check out a copy of ‘Howard the Duck’ in 1976. (Dennis Huls / San Diego Historical Society)” (source)

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1965: Portrait with Horns

Posted on July 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Tom Morris: Portrait of Billy Eckstine (1965) (source) Billy Eckstine was a jazz singer and bandleader of the swing era; listen to his 1951 hit “I Apologize” here.

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2013: Afrofuturistic

Posted on July 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Jennings: cover art for Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack (2013) (here)

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