Vanity Fair's latest edition, featuring Oscar-winning actor Viola Davis and photographed by Dario Calmese, is the first time a Black photographer has shot the cover in the magazine's history.
Calmese's work has previously appeared in the magazine, as well as other publications including The New York Times and CBS, according to his personal website.She is also set to play former first lady Michelle Obama in one-hour drama"First Ladies.", Davis talks about her upbringing in poverty and life in Hollywood, as well as participating in the recent wave of protests following the death of George Floyd."My entire life has been a protest," Davis says.
"Our mission at Vanity Fair is to capture the zeitgeist. That includes defining the new creative class, an ongoing project of rebuilding," she wrote.She also shared that Calmese described the idea behind the cover as"a re-creation of the Louis Agassiz slave portraits taken in the 1800s -- the back, the welts. This image reclaims that narrative, transmuting the white gaze on Black suffering into the Black gaze of grace, elegance, and beauty.
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