Author is an alumna of Evanston Township High School, class of 1970.
Working together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop
by Cincinnati Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Willis, Deborah, Duganne, Erina, Eckhardt, Sarah L., Crawford, Romi, Mason, John Edwin, Gaskins, Bill, Cochran, Sharayah, Whitney Museum of American Art, Draper, Louis H., J. Paul Getty Museum
"Inspired by the archive of Richmond native Louis Draper, VMFA has organized an unprecedented exhibition that chronicles the first twenty years of the Kamoinge Workshop, a group of African American photographers he helped to found in 1963. More than 180 photographs by fifteen of…
Working together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop
by Cincinnati Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Willis, Deborah, Duganne, Erina, Eckhardt, Sarah L., Draper, Louis H., Crawford, Romi, Mason, John Edwin, Gaskins, Bill, Cochran, Sharayah, Whitney Museum of American Art, J. Paul Getty Museum
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of African American photography that was presented by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in January 2020. Both the exhibition and catalogue draw heavily on the museum's complete archives of papers and photographs of Virginia artist Louis D…
Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map. As an itinerant portraitist working primarily in North Carolina and Virginia during the rise of Jim Crow, Mangum welcomed…
"... Approximately 100 images, some single and some multiple portraits, edited from the almost 800 large-format glass-plate negatives and thousands of individual portraits made by Durham-born and self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum and currently housed at Duke University's Rube…
A photographic chronicle of Barack Obama's historic presidential campaign documents his family, his fellow candidates, the voters who selected him, his speeches, and memorable campaign moments and events.