![ikolo Brathwaite wearing a headpiece](/sites/default/files/styles/responsive_image_full_width_2560_x_auto_/public/2022-08/5603.kbw_003-hr_web%20%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=h2VSR5ik)
Kwame Brathwaite, Sikolo Brathwaite wearing a headpiece designed by Carolee Prince, African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, ca. 1968; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019)
![Sikolo Brathwaite](/sites/default/files/styles/responsive_image_full_width_2560_x_auto_/public/2022-08/5603.kbw_149-hr_web%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=3H_fXCaM)
Kwame Brathwaite, Sikolo Brathwaite, African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, ca. 1968; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019)
![Photo shoot at a public school](/sites/default/files/styles/responsive_image_full_width_2560_x_auto_/public/2022-08/5603.kbw_150-hr_web%20%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=Ivoy14Cq)
Kwame Brathwaite, Photo shoot at a public school for one of the AJASS-associated modeling groups that emulated the Grandassa Models and began to embrace natural hairstyles. Harlem, ca. 1966; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019)
![Kwame Brathwaite, Photo shoot at a public school for one of the AJASS-associated modeling groups that emulated the Grandassa Models and began to embrace natural hairstyles. Harlem, ca. 1966; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019)](/sites/default/files/styles/responsive_two_columns_with_logo_679_x_auto_/public/2022-08/5603.kbw_150-hr_web.jpg.webp?itok=OcjSqSTN)
Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite is organized Aperture, New York and Kwame S. Brathwaite.
The exhibition and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible, in part, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles. All photographs are courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles.
At the Detroit Institute of Arts, major support is generously provided by Cadillac.
Additional support is provided by Lisa Pernick and Bruce Israel, Maureen and Roy S. Roberts, and Rhonda D. Welburn.
![Cadillac](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-08/cadillac_logo_resized.png.webp?itok=vLYzoIqK)
![Carolee Prince wearing her own jewelry designs](/sites/default/files/styles/responsive_card_image_auto_x_472_/public/2022-08/5603.kbw_018-hr_web.jpg.webp?itok=aXnbNR5M)
Carolee Prince wearing her own jewelry designs, 1964
Kwame Brathwaite![Grandassa Models at the Merton Simpson Gallery](/sites/default/files/styles/responsive_card_image_auto_x_472_/public/2022-08/5603.kbw_061-hr_web%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=PoMlYxfu)
Grandassa Models at the Merton Simpson Gallery, 1967
Kwame Brathwaite![Man smoking a tobacco pipe](/sites/default/files/styles/responsive_card_image_auto_x_472_/public/2022-08/5603.kbw_075-hr_web%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=q6YaVK8I)
Man smoking in a ballroom, 1964
Kwame Brathwaite![Marcus Garvey Day Parade](/sites/default/files/styles/responsive_card_image_auto_x_472_/public/2022-08/5603.kbw_108-hr_web%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=S7m7DRi9)
Marcus Garvey Day Parade, 1967
Kwame Brathwaite![Grandassa Model onstage,](/sites/default/files/styles/responsive_card_image_auto_x_472_/public/2022-08/5603.kbw_114-hr_web%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=62XrqVL7)
Grandassa Model onstage, 1968
Kwame Brathwaite![Self Portrait of Kwame Brathwaite](/sites/default/files/styles/responsive_card_image_auto_x_472_/public/2022-08/5603.kbw_115-hr_web%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=qByZyfzX)
Self Portrait, 1964
Kwame Brathwaite