@carlycaar | @blckbeasts Black Beasts: In Captivity Visual Campaign 2017 Shot by Amanda King *This is also our October postcard for our Support Black Art Members, on it’s way to your mailbox ASAP!* ——— “This visual campaign was inspired by how the invention of the mugshot in 1888 used anthropometric methods to determine criminality from physical features. “In Captivity” also serves as a metaphor for how mass media depicts black suspects and in some cases, victims, as criminals before proven guilty. The suspect, in this manner, is a black beast as it’s in captivity by law enforcement. Inspired by historical documents written by white men on the construct of race, the physical features of the black beast is rooted in historical racist evidence and animalistic fantasy. Their teeth are physical fictions that their capturers use as a means of identification-- the display of their teeth in a mugshot reveals that the suspect is of the black beast species.” View more on blackbeasts.com Thank you to everybody who helped me create what’s been in my head for so long! Shout out to @iadking @yourfavblackman @lospost216 , Ezra, Yonnie, @jassyyy.b , Sidney, @shootingwithoutbullets 🖤🖤🖤 #supportblackart #blackbeasts #carlyheywood #incaptivity https://www.instagram.com/p/CHB1MQFBRnG/?igshid=hrollzfg7rvj
