# @gettymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CB3TeZonHjA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34229932-gettymuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/f20ad0bb8e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-06-25T16:05:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

🖤Black: Diversity

This #PrideMonth, we're sharing artworks inspired by the rainbow flag. Today we look at Black, which symbolizes Diversity.
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“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 Cadoo, the history of the pride flag, and to see more Pride-themed artworks, visit our #LinkInBio.

#pride #pridemonth #pride2020🏳️‍🌈#lgbt #lgbthistory #gayhistory #queerhistory

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