The first major mid-career retrospective of works by New York-based artist Glenn Ligon recently opened at the Whitney Museum in NYC. In this 2008 interview with Thomas Allen Harris, for […]
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Beauty & Fashion: The Black Portrait Symposium @ NYU April 2 & 3
Beauty and Fashion: The Black Portrait Symposium – @ NYU April 2-3, 2011 Beauty and Fashion: The Black Portrait Symposium Event Date and Time: April 2, 2011 – April 3, […]
Hidden in the Open: A Photographic Essay
By: Trent Kelley, playwright & poet Sometimes it is difficult to write without anger. Pretending or denying that certain controversial truths do not exist, for the purpose of catering to […]
The Idea Of The Photograph
By Deborah Willis, Ph.D. New York University When I grew up in Philadelphia in the 1950s and 60s, the camera was a central element in our lives. My family treasured […]
Photographer Hosts Salon to Honor Black History
Just back from the first annual Addis Foto Fest in Ethiopia, Regine Romain is keeping her momentum by hosting the Brooklyn Photo Salon, a quarterly photographer’s gathering, which will be […]
Thomas Allen Harris @ Brooklyn Photo Salon, Sunday February 20th, 5-9pm
Thomas Allen Harris will be featured during the Brooklyn Photo Salon on Sunday, February 20th, 5pm-9pm. Harris is one of four Photographers and Artists to share their work as part […]
Introducing: Russell K. Frederick
Photographer Russell Frederick was born to Panamanian parents in Bushwick, Brooklyn. He fell in love with photography after taking a course at NY’s International Center for Photography, making it his […]
Alonzo Jordan: Texas Barber and Photographer @ ICP
by THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS The first thing that came to mind when I heard about the Jasper, Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordan, on view at the ICP, was […]
Carlton Wilkinson: A Journey of Discovery
Since childhood, where I questioned the absence of my likeness in my Baptist Church books and pamphlets, then later in life, where I questioned the lack of African American images […]
Profile: Thomas E. Askew
Thomas E. Askew (1848? – 1914) Atlanta’s first African American photographer. Began his photography career in the 1880s at Motes Studio downtown Atlanta. Later operated his own studio from home […]