“Framing — and Reflecting — Beauty,” this week’s article from Maurice Berger’s Race Stories, looks at African-American artist Deborah Willis’ photography from her exhibition, “Framing Beauty” that not only considers how present-day Black women construct their identity and image, but also how the communities and routines they create are imbued “with both a sense of history and continuity with the past.” Many of the photographs focus on the role of the beauty industry in Black history and culture and how it empowers Black women to seek economic independence and create “vibrant communal spaces where women supported each other in the service of social and culture change.”
Article: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/framing-and-reflecting-beauty/