Leibovitz’s photographs are what happens when Blackness is seen through a white gaze incapable of capturing its true beauty
‘There are many ways to capture Black women’s beauty, but whatever Annie Leibovitz is doing simply isn’t it.’‘There are many ways to capture Black women’s beauty, but whatever Annie Leibovitz is doing simply isn’t it.’Last modified on Tue 23 Aug 2022 11.26 BSThas said. Yet if you were looking at any of her portraits of Black women, you’d have a hard time seeing that love.from the magazine’s September issue, which features a profile of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The portraits were taken at the National Mall, with the first of them depicting Brown Jackson leaning on a column, hidden behind the shadows while the large marble statue of Abraham Lincoln looms over her in the background. In the other, she is seated centrally with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool stretching behind her.
Both images have Brown Jackson’s skin tone looking exceptionally dull, and don’t portray any of the power and grace that one would expect from aprofile of the first Black woman on the US supreme court. Many have also scrutinized the images’ composition. Having Abraham Lincoln be the focal point of the first image came off to many critics as projecting a white savior narrative.
She manages to make her subjects look dull, ashy and sad, a far cry from the lively and graceful people that they usually are This is a longtime problem of Leibovitz’s. The photographer has dropped the ball many times in her depictions of other powerful Black women, including
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