africa.visual_media.nyc

harlem serendipity

go see: "malcolm x a search for truth" at the schomburg center for research in black culture in harlem. the exhibition contains personal artifacts from malcolm x's life (mostly letters) and a series of beautiful black and white photographs documenting his life from childhood to death.

interesting: there is a small section of photos that brother malcolm took on his visits to africa, including some pretty decent images of ghana. it would be intriguing to do an exhibition of his photography; he is a man who met a lot of interesting people and was present at a lot of pivotal events in 1960s black history. indeed in a number of pictures in the show he is shown with a camera and in a few is actually taking pictures. hmmm.

Posted by kamau at June 3, 2005 11:04 PM