Melvin Backman
Amiri Baraka, Newark, New Jersey, 1959. Burt Glinn; © Burt Glinn/Magnum Photos. BROOKS BROTHERS USED TO MAKE UNIFORMS FOR SLAVES, you know. It’s true. The company supplied the mid-twentieth-century Ivy League uniform of oxford-cloth shirts, boneless three-button suits, and chunky cricket sweaters primarily because they were known to make good clothes. (Die-hard partisans, however many […] 
Beverly Peele and Tyra Banks photographed by Arthur Elgort for Vogue, 1993. © Arthur Elgort FELIX KRÄMER, A GENERAL DIRECTOR OF DÜSSELDORF’S MUSEUM KUNSTPALAST, writes in the foreword to Captivate!: Fashion Photography from the ’90s that “galleries, institutions, studios and the people who work in both the public and private spheres are struggling for survival” […]