Discussions of West African portrait photography tend to gravitate towards the 1960s and 1970s, the era of such well-known artists as Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, and Samuel Fosso.

Adrienne Childs, a noted art historian and curator focusing on Black artists and how African Americans are represented in art, assesses the historic nature of the White House portraits of Barack ...

Right: Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1910. Unknown Artist (Senegal) By 1920, a number of studios had emerged in urban centers, and, in the decades to come, middle-class Africans sought them out.

Yousuf Karsh, one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century, primarily used black-and-white film to elegantly capture the soul of his subject. Try shooting at night Jowi Morales ...

The portrait that turned all of social media into amateur art critics overnight—our forever First Lady seated against a sky blue background and wearing a flowing mostly black-and-white gown by ...