Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「Vanity Fair has commissioned a Black photographer to shoot its cover for the first time, an overdue step for a magazine that has long weathered criticism for a lack of diverse racial representation in its pages.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The cover of the magazine’s July/August issue, featuring actor Viola Davis, was shot by photographer Dario Calmese, whose photo of Davis aims to reimagine the brutal portraits of Black enslaved people taken by white photographers in the 19th century.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ “This image reclaims that narrative, transmuting the white gaze on Black suffering into the Black gaze of grace, elegance, and beauty,” he said.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ In the accompanying cover story, Davis herself pointed out the long-standing lack of Black representation on the iconic magazine’s covers.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ “They’ve had a problem in the past with putting Black women on the covers,” Davis said. “But that’s a lot of magazines, that’s a lot of beauty campaigns. There’s a real absence of dark-skinned Black women. When you couple that with what’s going on in our culture, and how they treat Black women, you have a double whammy. You are putting us in a complete cloak of invisibility.”⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ “Davis is right, about Black women — and men (and, for that matter, other people of color as well as LGBTQ+ subjects),” Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones wrote in an editor’s letter introducing the new issue. “For most of the magazine’s history, a Black artist, athlete, or politician appearing on a regular monthly issue of Vanity Fair was a rare occurrence. In our archives, excluding groups and special issues, we count 17 Black people on the cover of Vanity Fair in the 35 years between 1983 and 2017.”⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read more at our link in bio. // 📷 @dario.studio/Vanity Fair⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Note: The previous version of this post mentioned Vanity Fair's "37-year history," which did not reflect the magazines several iterations dating back to 1913.」7月15日 2時43分