Artist and photographer Nona Faustine, who made Black womanhood and the attendant topics of identity, history, and representation her subjects in works of stunning visual power, died in New York on March 20. She was forty-eight. Her death was announced by Brooklyn gallery Higher Pictures, which represented her; no cause was given. Photographing young mothers, her own family members, and herself, Faustine highlighted marginalized African American histories, the hidden trauma wrought by the transatlantic slave trade, and the exigencies of being born Black and female...