![]() ![]() The height of the genre is surely the poet Langston Hughes and the photographer Roy DeCarava’s transcendent book “ The Sweet Flypaper of Life” (1955), which stitches together lives in Harlem via point and counterpoint, shadow and silence. In the nineteen-sixties, Amiri Baraka, June Jordan, and others made the photopoem both a celebration of Black culture and a redress for the indignities the Black image faces still. Within this tradition of innovation is a form that may best be called the photopoem, whose Black mode traces back to the turn of the twentieth century, when Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poems were paired with images by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Down the decades, African Americans have invented artistic forms that are now revered-blues, jazz, and turntabling, for instance-and others that have yet to be named. ![]()
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