‘Black Hollywood’ reshoots classic film scenes with Black actors
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 4, 2022
For eleven years, photographer Carell Augustus has created portraits of Black actors recast in classic Hollywood films like “The Shining,” “Bonnie & Clyde,” “Dirty Dancing,” “The Graduate” and “Back to the Future.” His resultant book, “Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments,” from Ebony Magazine publishing, hopes to amend the glaring omission of Black representation in the mainstream media during Hollywood’s golden ages.
Growing up in the 1980s, Augustus said, Black people . . .
