In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularise the political slogan Black Is Beautiful. This monograph, the first ever dedicated to his career, tells the story of a key but under-recognised figure of the second Harlem Renaissance. Inspired by the writings of the activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey, Brathwaite and his older brother Elombe Brath founded a collective of artists and a modelling agency whose work spread the idea through fashion, music and portraiture.