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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, 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 […]

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 […]

Lyle Ashton Harris: Self/Portrait brings together a group of large-format Polaroid photographs of the artist’s friends, family and community; artists, art collectors and patrons; and the artist himself. Shot over […]

Lorna Simpson: Gathered presents works that explore this Brooklyn-born artist’s interest in the interplay between fact and fiction, identity and history. Through works that incorporate hundreds of original and found […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]