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Article: Black Bodies.
- Article from:
- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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by Jules Allen Delano Greenidge Editions, April 2002 $24.95, ISBN 0-929-44514-7
Photographer Jules Allen originally planned for his first major book of images to be about boxing. But with a slight change of plans, his unblinking lens turned to another highly charged subject--the black, female body. Black Bodies is an exhibition of unbridled nakedness (Writer Joan Morgan, in the foreword, offers an uplifting definition of the word naked.); and the women featured are not of the fashion-model variety and they absolutely revel in it.
Of the 100 black-and-white photographs of women's torsos contorting and flaunting, the compositions appear to embrace and ...