Dandy Lion: (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity
Opening
Apr 06, 2015 at 11:00 am
Start date
Apr 06, 2015
End date
Jul 12, 2015
The exhibition seeks to distinguish the contemporary expressions of the Black Dandy phenomenon in popular culture. The first comprehensive exhibition of its kind, this project highlights young men in city landscapes who defy stereotypical and monolithic understandings of Black masculinity by remixing Victorian-era fashion with traditional African sartorial sensibilities. Dandy Lion: (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity features images of both emerging and world- renowned photographers and filmmakers from various regions of the African Diaspora, including the U.S., South Africa, the Congo and Western Europe. Juxtaposed against an urban backdrop, the “hip hop” generation’s Black Dandy is noticeably different from the historical minstrel or Harlem Renaissance queer prototype. The 21st century Black Dandy’s sartorial choices are an expression of the African aesthetic rather than an imitation of European high-brow society. Using their self- fashioned bodies as sites of resistance, contemporary Black dandies are complicating modern narratives of what it means to be Black, masculine and fashionable today.
Jules Allen (1947); Beuford Smith (1941); Orville Robertson (1957); Suné Woods (1975); Keisha Scarville (1975); Inge Hardison (1914); C.W. Griffin (1953); Omar Kharem (1927); Martin Dixon (1965); Linda Day Clark (1963); Hugh Bell (1927); Keith M. Calhoun (1955); Chandra McCormick (1957); Eli Reed (1946); LeRoy W. Henderson (1936); Mfon (Mmekutmfon) Essien (1967 - 2001); Chuck Stewart (1927); Kwame Brathwaite (1938 - 2023); Gerard H. Gaskin (1966); Renée Cox (1958); Stephen Marc (1954); Donald E. Camp (1940); Accra Shepp (1962); Charles Martin (1952); Albert R. Fennar (1938); Nathaniel Burkins (1953); Lonnie Graham (1954); Anthony Barboza (1944); Herb Robinson (1942); Iké Udé (1964); Salimah Ali (1954); Ronald Barboza (1946); Donald L. Bernard (1942); Ron Campbell (1955); Howard T. Cash (1953); Albert Chong (1958); Joe Harris (1940); Art Harrison (1937); Raymond W. Holman (1948); Imari (1927); Reginald L. Jackson (1945); Leslie Jean-Bart (1954); Jason Miccolo Johnson (1956); Gary Jackson Kirksey (1955); Andrea Davis Kronlund (1964); Fern Logan (1945); Lauri Lyons (1971); Steve J. Martin (1945); Willie Middlebrook (1957); Cheryl Miller (1953); Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe (1951); Ozier Muhammad (1950); Marilyn Nance (1953); Toni Parks (1940); Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006); David 'Oggi' Ogburn (1942); John Pinderhughes (1946); Carl Pope (1961); Herbert Randall (1936); Vernon Reid (1958); Richard Howard Rose (1973); Jeffrey A. Salter (1961); Juma Santos (1947); Jeffrey Henson Scales (1954); Coreen Simpson (1942); Jamyl Oboong Smith (1954); Frank Stewart (1949); Gerald Straw (1943); Bruce W. Talamon (1949); Ron Tarver (1957); Shawn W. Walker (1940); Carrie Mae Weems (1953); Edward West (1949); Cynthia Wiggins; Budd Williams (1949); Ernest C. Withers (1922 - 2007); Mel Wright (1942); Gene Young (1948); Barron Claiborne (1967); Carl Clark (1933); Wayne Clarke (1945); Jim Collier (1942); Kerry Stuart-Coppin (1953); Adger W. Cowans (1936); Gerald G. Cyrus (1957); Sulaiman Ellison (1951); Delphine Adama Fawundu (1971); Collette Fournier (1952); Omar Francis (1972); Roland L. Freeman (1936); Bill Gaskins (1953); Tony Gleaton (1948); Faith Goodin (1970); Todd Gray (1954); Bob Greene (1935);
Barbara Head Millstein;
Reflections in Black
- A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present
Reflections in Black - 'A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present'
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
, United States
Washington D.C.,
United States
Jules Lion (1810 - 1866); Augustus Washington (1820 - 1875); James Presley Ball (1825 - 1875); Daniel Freeman (1868 - 1927); William & Wallace (1846-1890 & 1840-1922) Goodridge; Glenalvin J. Goodridge (1829 - 1867); Harry Shepherd (1956); George O. Brown; Thomas E. Askew (1850 - 1914); Cornelius Marion Battey (1873 - 1927); Arthur P. Bedou (1882 - 1966); Villard Paddio (1894 - 1947); Florestine Perrault Collins (1895 - 1988); Perry A. Keith; Addison N. Scurlock (1883 - 1964); Herbert Collins; James van der Zee (1886 - 1983); King Daniel Ganaway (1883); James Latimer Allen (1907 - 1977); Elise Forrest Harleston (1891 - 1970); Edward Elcha; Prentice H. Polk (1898 - 1984); Richard Samuel Roberts (1881 - 1936); Andrew T. Kelly (1890 - 1965); Paul Poole (1886 - 1955); Richard Aloysius Twine (1896 - 1974); Ellie Lee Weems (1901 - 1983); Allen E. Cole (1893 - 1970); Robert S. Scurlock (1916 - 1994); Robert H. McNeill (1917 - 2005); Morgan & Marvin (1910-1993) & (*1910) Smith; William Anderson Scott III (1923); Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006); Dwoyid Olmstad; Charles 'Teenie' Harris (1908 - 1998); Roy DeCarava (1919 - 2009); Richard Saunders (1922 - 1987); Charles 'Chuck' Stewart (1927); Milton Hinton (1910 - 2000); Bertrand Miles (1928); Bob Moore; Charles Williams (1908 - 1986); Jack Davis (1920); Jack T. Franklin (1922); John W. Mosley (1907 - 1969); Ernest C. Withers (1922 - 2007); Robert L. Haggins (1922); Moneta J. Sleet (1926 - 1996); Louise Ozell Martin (1911 - 1995); Joe Flowers (1937 - 1996); Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870 - 1940); Jonathan Eubanks (1927); Carroll Parrott Blue (1943); Curtis Humphrey (1907 - 1996); Elmora Frazier (1924); Marion James Porter (1908 - 1983); Milton Williams (1940); Adger W. Cowans (1936); Eugene Roquemore (1921 - 1993); Benny A. Joseph (1924); St. Claire Bourne (1943); C. Daniel Dawson (1943); Winston Kennedy (1944); Ptah Hotep (1942); Bill Lathan (1937); Doris A. Derby; Roland L. Freeman (1936); Roland Charles (1941); Jeffrey Henson Scales (1954); June DeLairre Truesdale; Joe Harris (1940); David 'Oggi' Ogburn (1942); Keith M. Calhoun (1955); Chandra McCormick (1957); O'Neal Lancy Abel (1941); Harlee Little (1947); Mansa K. Mussa (1951); Gerald Straw (1943); Mel Wright (1942); LeRoy W. Henderson (1936); Sunny Nash (1951); Bob Gore (1947); Cheryl Miller (1953); Salimah Ali (1954); Cary Beth Cryor (1947 - 1997); Earlie Hudnall (1946); Orville Robertson (1957); Raymond W. Holman (1948); Charles Martin (1952); Carl Clark (1933); Linda Day Clark (1963); Sheila Pree (1967); Ken D. Ashton (1963); Ming Smith Murray; Gerald G. Cyrus (1957); Alfredf Olusegum Fayemi; Ken Royster (1944); Chester Higgins (1946); Ken Jones (1956); Carl N. Sidle (1943); Shawn W. Walker (1940); Kambui Olujimi (1976); Steven Cummings (1965); Collette Fournier (1952); Lonnie Graham (1954); Frank Stallings (1946); Jeffrey L. St. Mary (1955); Moira Pernambuco (1969); Delphine Adama Fawundu (1971); Hank Sloane Thomas (1976); Craig Herndon (1947); Nekeisha Durrett (1976); Beuford Smith (1941); Fern Logan (1945); Carla Williams (1965); Vincent Allan W. (1960 - 1996); Dawoud Bey (1953); Lou Jones (1945); Coreen Simpson (1942); Bill Gaskin (1953); Reginald L. Jackson (1945); Carroll Parrott Blue (1943); Jeffrey Henson Scales (1954); Susan I. Boss (1952); Ronnie Phillips; Ron Tarver (1957); Constance Newman (1935); Suede; Andre Lambertson (1962); Donald E. Camp (1940); John Pinderhughes (1946); Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier (1954); Clarissa Sligh (1939); Dennis Olanzo Callwood (1942); Amalia Amaki (1949); Pat Ward Williams (1948); Albert Chong (1958); Camille Gustus; Accra Shepp (1962); Nashormeh Lindo (1953); Donald L. Bernard (1942); Thomas Allen & Lyle Ashton (*1962) & (*1963) Harris; Keba Konte (1966); Shelia Turner (1961); Anthony Beale (1970); Linda L. Ammons; David Driskell (1931 - 2020); Wendel A. While (1956); Stephen Marc (1954); Carl Lewis (1951); Roshini Kempadoo (1959); Todd Gray (1954); Darrel Ellis (1958 - 1992); Carlton Wilkinson (1958); Chris Johnson (1948); Carrie Mae Weems (1953); Lorna Simpson (1960); Cynthia Wiggins; Renée Cox (1958); Terry E. Boddie (1965); Christian Walker (1954); William Earle Williams (1950); Calvin Hicks; John Brown (1957); George Durr; Jeffrey John Fearing (1949); Lewis Watts (1946); Claudette Holmes (1962); Stephanie Dinkins (1964); Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe (1951);
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