🖤Black: Diversity This #PrideMonth, we're sharing artworks inspired by the rainbow flag. Today we look at Black, which symbolizes Diversity. . “The American photographer Emil Cadoo made this enigmatic photograph by combining multiple negatives, including a portrait of a young man in profile and one depicting foliage. The juxtaposition of these disparate subjects creates a dreamlike image and reveals his interest in Surrealism, a cultural movement born in the aftermath of World War I that carried considerable influence well into the second half of the 20th century. After studying Romance languages at Brooklyn College with the help of the GI Bill, Cadoo worked as a photojournalist. In the early 1960s, following in the footsteps of prominent American intellectuals including James Baldwin and Richard Wright, he emigrated to Paris, where as a queer Black man he found racism and homophobia to be less overt.“ —Arpad Kovacs, assistant curator, department of photographs. For more on Emil ...