Dress and Power with Kennedi Carter and Taylor Renee Aldridge Thursday, October 21, 2021 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. virtual program Fine art and editorial photographer Kennedi Carter, who in 2020 became the youngest photographer to shoot the cover of British Vogue (for which she photographed Beyoncé), is joined by CAAM curator Taylor Renee Aldridge to explore Carter’s recent series, Flexing/New Realm, which features portraits of friends in historically inspired costumes and poses. Carter’s work will serve as a catalyst for a conversation about photography as a device for Black people to self-image; ways in which Black Americans use their artworks to communicate ideas of Blackness and its relationship to wealth, power, respect, and belonging; and the practice of Black artists who subvert power dynamics of traditional art historical portraits by placing Black sitters in traditionally white contexts. RSVP for Zoom instructions. This program is co-presented by the Fowler Museum at UCLA in conjunction with their current exhibition, Photo Cameroon: Studio Portraiture, 1970–1990s.