Antwaun Sargent Wants to Shift the Visual Narrative on Beauty

Dana Scruggs, Nyadhour, Elevated, Death Valley, California, 2019, from The New Black Vanguard (Aperture, 2019) 'The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion by curator and critic Antwaun Sargent , and published by Aperture, features 15 black photographers, among them Nadine Ijewere , Dana Scruggs and Stephen Tayo , who have formed an informal movement to convey images of black beauty and identity as a form of social justice. "We think about identity as being fixed," Sargent told WNYC's cultural critic Rebecca Carroll. "And that's because we've naturalized these narratives surrounding beauty, surrounding what is conventional. So I think that the images in the book help to problematize those kinds of notions.' -- WNYC News