“Black in the ’70s: Photographer Charles Caldwell’s ‘back in the day’ images are revisited“ By Lee Bey Published by: Chicago Public Media/WBEZ91.5 March 08, 2012 “Charles Caldwell doesn’t often shoot […]
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Thomas Allen Harris Featured in The Advocate!
Artist Thomas Allen Harris, who’s shown work at the Whitney Biennial and the Museum of Modern Art, brings his sensibility to an ambitious documentary series on black identity. The varied […]
Major Morris: Looking Back
North County Times Article by: Patricia Morris Buckley Escondido is a long way from the slums of Cincinnati where photographer Major Morris grew up during the 1930s. But he still […]
Identity and Affirmation In California
Identity and Affirmation: African American Post War Photography Currently on Exhibition at: California State University, Northridge Art Galleries Identity and Affirmation: African American Post War Photography consists of 145 images […]
Lyle Ashton Harris & Chuck Close: A Conversation
Artist and Photographer, Lyle Ashton Harris who is featured in the upcoming feature documentary “Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” was in conversation with […]
Teenie Harris Photo Exhibit Opens in Pittsburgh
By Kurt Shaw, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, October 30, 2011 Legendary Pittsburgh photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908-1998) once quipped, “I let my pictures do the talking for me.” And considering the […]
Jules Allen on Gleason’s Gym
It wasn’t exactly a sucker punch, but Jules Allen was struck by what he found upon entering into Gleason’s Gym: sweat-soaked champs and punch-drunk pugs. Gangsters and posers. Men with […]
Accra Shepp Occupy Wall Street Project
As the Occupy Wall Street protest continues in Zuccotti Park, artist Accra Shepp uses a 4×5 view camera with black and white film and makes twenty to thirty portraits each […]
Tuscaloosa gallery exhibit highights Sheila Pree Bright’s work.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The second exhibit in the newly opened University of Alabama Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art in downtown Tuscaloosa will feature the work of Atlanta-based photographer Sheila […]
Hank Willis Thomas at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC
This fall, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design presents a group of approximately 12 new photographs and video works by artist Hank Willis Thomas. In […]