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A study of black identity. It is a story, told in pictures and words, of contemporary black artists exploring issues of their own identity in photography. With a historical introduction, the main part of the volume addresses contemporary work produced since 1985. Prior to this date there was no organized black photography movement to speak of and extremely few established black photographers in the commercial and arts worlds. Since 1985 a number of black photographic artists have emerged into public view through their address to identity issues. Stuart Hall introduces and contextualizes 160 photographs by approximately 40 black photographers who have produced bodies of work about racial, national, gender and sexual identity. The introduction provides a guide to terminology and the arguments, integrated with a brief history of black photographers' work on identity themes prior to 1985. A number of key photographers and historical movements are referred to and illustrated including, for example, the work of James Van der Zee and Roy DeCarava. The main part of the book focuses on work by photographers since 1985 worldwide, including Faisal Abdu Allah; Ajamu; Oladele Bamgboye; Chila Burman; Clement Cooper; Armet Francis; Joy Gregory; Sunil Gupta; Lyle Harris; Dave Lewis; Estaquio Neves; Eileen Perrier; Coreen Simpson; Robert Taylor; Maxine Walker; and others.

Photography, Artistic --- Blacks in art --- Negroes in art --- Artistic photography --- Photography --- Photography, Pictorial --- Pictorial photography --- Art --- Aesthetics

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African Americans in art. --- Ethnicity in art. --- African American art --- Afro-American art --- Art, African American --- Negro art --- Ethnic art --- Afro-Americans in art --- Negroes in art --- Themes, motives. --- Motley, Archibald John, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Art, European --- -Blacks in art --- Christian saints in art --- -Negroes in art --- Art, Modern --- European art --- Nouveaux réalistes (Group of artists) --- Zaj (Group of artists) --- Catalogs --- Maurice Saint --- -Maurice Saint --- -Art --- Art --- -Catalogs --- Cult --- -Art, European --- Blacks in art --- Negroes in art --- Maurice, --- Mauritius, --- Moris, --- Art. --- Catalogs. --- Maurice (Saint). Iconographie. Allemagne. 13e-17e s. --- Mauritius (Hl). Iconografie. Duitsland. 13e-17e eeuw. --- Iconography --- Maurice [s.] --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Mauritius et soc. mm. Agaunenses

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Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.

Slavery in art. --- Portraits. --- Slavery --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Portraiture --- Art --- Biography --- Pictures --- History. --- Blacks in art. --- Negroes in art --- Blacks in art --- Black people in art. --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Enslaved persons

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1980's Britain witnessed the brassy, multifaceted emergence of a new generation of young, Black-British artists. Practitioners such as Sonia Boyce and Keith Piper were exhibited in galleries up and down the country and reviewed approvingly. But as the 1980's generation gradually but noticeably fell out of favour, the 1990's produced an intriguing new type of Black-British artist. Ambitious, media-savvy, successful artists such as Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili, and Yinka Shonibare made extensive use of the Black image (or, at least, images of Black people, and visuals evocative of Africa), but did so in ways that set them apart from earlier Black artists. Not only did these artists occupy the curatorial and gallery spaces nominally reserved for a slightly older generation but, with aplomb, audacity, and purpose, they also claimed previously unimaginable new spaces. Their successes dwarfed those of any previous Black artists in Britain. Back-to-back Turner Prize victories, critically acclaimed Fourth Plinth commissions, and no end of adulatory media attention set them apart. What happened to Black-British artists during the 1990's is the chronicle around which Things Done Change is built. The extraordinary changes that the profile of Black-British artists went through are discussed in a lively, authoritative, and detailed narrative. In the evolving history of Black-British artists, many factors have played their part. The art world’s turning away from work judged to be overly ‘political’ and ‘issue-based’; the ascendancy of Blair’s New Labour government, determined to locate a bright and friendly type of ‘diversity’ at the heart of its identity; the emergence of the precocious and hegemonic yBa grouping; governmental shenanigans; the tragic murder of Black Londoner Stephen Lawrence – all these factors and many others underpin the telling of this fascinating story. Things Done Change represents a timely and important contribution to the building of more credible, inclusive, and nuanced art histories. The book avoids treating and discussing Black artists as practitioners wholly separate and distinct from their counterparts. Nor does the book seek to present a rosy and varnished account of Black-British artists. With its multiple references to Black music, in its title, several of its chapter headings, and citations evoked by artists themselves, Things Done Change makes a singular and compelling narrative that reflects, as well as draws on, wider cultural manifestations and events in the socio-political arena.

Art, Black --- Artists, Black --- Art, British --- Blacks in art. --- Negroes in art --- British art --- Black artists --- Negro artists --- Black art --- Negro art --- History. --- History --- Systems Group (Group of artists) --- Young British Artists (Group of artists) --- Blacks in art --- Black people in art.