The Art Angle Podcast: How Photography Is Being Revolutionized in the Coronavirus Era

Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that
delves into the places where the art world meets the real world,
bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join host Andrew
Goldstein every week for an in-depth look at what matters most in
museums, the art market, and much more with input from our own
writers and editors as well as artists, curators, and other top
experts in the field.

Today, Antwaun Sargent is known as the preeminent critical and
curatorial voice for one of the most important movements in
contemporary photography. Along with its accompanying exhibition,
his book, The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and
Fashion, stands as an important statement on
a diverse set of young artists finding their own unique ways to
break down the traditional boundaries separating two disciplines
that have always been more intertwined than has been widely
acknowledged.

Yet just a few years ago, Sargent was virtually unknown to the
fine-art establishment. He found his footing as an independent
writer looking to spotlight rising black artists in his peer group
(think: Jordan Casteel, Awol Erizku, and Jennifer Packer), then
quickly expanded his scope to place their practices in conversation
with a long line of artists of color whose pioneering work too
often went unrecognized by the (usually) Western white male
gatekeepers of their respective eras. His essays have since
appeared in The New York Times, The New
Yorker, and several institutional publications, enlightening
audiences on not only the work of particular photographers, but
also on how their collective efforts are shifting the conventions
of image-making—inside and outside the art world alike.

On this week’s episode, Sargent joins the podcast for a
wide-ranging conversation touching on everything from Tyler Mitchell‘s
instant-classic pregnancy-reveal photos of
Beyoncé, to the leveling power of social media for a generation
of image-makers eager to control their work’s distribution, to how
photography is simultaneously evolving in response to the
coronavirus crisis and memorializing its effects on global
culture.

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episodes here on Artnet News.)

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