Picturing the Black Racial Imaginary | Dawoud Bey and LeRonn P. Brooks

Fiction and Truth: Visual Art and Literature in Picturing the Black Racial Imaginary: A Conversation with Dawoud Bey and Dr. LeRonn Brooks. Artist and Educator, Dawoud Bey, and Curator, Dr. LeRonn P. Brooks discussed the role of the visual arts and literature in presenting unwritten historical legacies.
LeRonn P. Brooks, PhD, is the curator of the African American Art History Initiative at the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and curator of African American collections and acquisitions at the GRI. He is also curator and co-curator of several archives, including those of the Johnson Publishing Company, architect Paul Revere Williams, sculptor Richard Hunt, and others.
Dawoud Bey is a photographer and educator celebrated for his rich, psychologically compelling portraits. His work has been defined by the empathy he brings to his subjects and the complexity with which he depicts them. Renowned for his early street photography and deeply probing portraits, the 2017 MacArthur Fellow's recent bodies of landscape work focuses on the construction of history and memory.