As D'Angelo Lovell Williams posed for a kiss with a former partner, Glenn, their faces each obscured by the black silk cloth of a backwards durag, the photographer had a famous painting in mind.
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The Mississippi-born, New York-based artist, who is non-binary, had always loved the surrealist art born from the tumult of World War I. As they staged their photograph, they thought of the simple heart shape formed by the figures in René Magritte's seminal painting"The Lovers." In the 1928 composition, an allegory for disconnect and longing, the Belgian artist painted a close-up of a couple sharing an intimate kiss, their heads entirely wrapped in white fabric.
"I was adamant about making this blatant love for Black queer men, but also trying to lay the ground for how things are for a lot of Black men in general, whether or not they are queer," Williams told CNN Style in a phone interview."Men are shamed for expressing feelings and intimacy with anyone," they added,"but especially other men."
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