Tag: Portraits
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Presidential Portraits by Kehinde Wiley, This Time From Africa
[ad_1] The American artist Kehinde Wiley shot to fame in 2018 with his unconventional presidential portrait, at least as far as U.S. presidential portraiture goes: Barack Obama seated amid a brightly colored, flowery background. Now, Mr. Wiley is again breaking the mold with a series of portraits of 11 current and former African presidents in…
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Portraits of Fire Victims: Two Toddlers Named ‘Memory,’ and a Teacher About to Wed
[ad_1] As many as 600 people called the squalid five-story building at 80 Albert Street in downtown Johannesburg home. Nearly three weeks after a fire tore through the building, leaving at least 77 people dead, survivors recall those they lost and the workaday family lives they led inside a trash-strewn building that had no heat,…
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Portraits of Heqing’s Chinese New Year
[ad_1] Bai Tradition in Focus: The Visible Symphony of Heqing In 2011, in the course of the vibrant and bustling Chinese language New Yr celebrations, Italian photographer Dominique Musorrafiti launched into a creative journey to seize the essence of Heqing, a hidden gem nestled in China’s Yunnan province. Using her array of analog cameras as an…