Photographer Jack Garofalo captured a series of striking photos of Harlem, New York for Paris Match magazine during a period of six weeks in the summer of 1970.
Volta Photo Studio photographs by Sory Sanlé, circa 1960 - 1985, Burkinabe, Burkina Faso
Sory Sanlé will be getting his first shows in the US this spring, one at the Art Institute of Chicago and another at a gallery in New York. I read somewhere that he nearly took a match to the lot of it, but that’s probably romantic hyperbole. He’s 73 years old now and looks in pretty fine shape still, though not as good as in the picture directly above, the last picture down, which is a self portrait shot about fifty years ago. It should come as no surprise to learn that he used a twin reflex Rollei.
Continuing the celebration of the photographer’s birthday today, a selection of Carl Van Vechten’s brilliant color portraits of African American performers: Billie Holiday, Geoffrey Holder, Pearl Bailey, Carmen De Lavallade, Ella Fitzgerald, Joyce Bryant, Harry Belafonte, Ethel Waters, James Earl Jones, and Blanche Dunn.