A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ...

When British documentary photographer Andrew Jackson moved to Montreal in 2017, he did what he always does in a new city: he ...

The 29-year-old fashion photographer Tyler Mitchell had his own ideas about how to shoot the catalog for the museum’s spring ...

The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873 ... He went on to become the first Black man in the country to hold a judicial position when he became a justice of the peace in Massachusetts.

In the last act of his life, my father might be teaching me one final lesson: how an elderly black man is supposed to grieve. I call this class A Portrait Of Grief As An Elderly Black Man.

I'd found a number of portraits that depict their black subjects as real people, not caricatures, and Joseph Johnson's was one of those. It was etched by John Thomas Smith in 1815 and appeared in ...

click image for close-up The portrait of Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black man and Revolutionary War veteran who lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, hangs in the historical room of the town library.

Oftentimes, the evidence for the presence of black people in this region of Europe is quite sparse, but in this case we have several confirmations, including a visual one. The mistress of the ...