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 produced by Los Angeles artists, exploring modernist tendencies in the work of the artists as they embraced and depicted the vibrant development of the arts, music, politics, family, and social life in the Black community and Los Angeles at large. The innovative improvisations of jazz, of particular importance during this period, 1945 – 1980, can be seen in the work of these photographers in both their subjects and approaches to photography. The photographs will be drawn from the collections of nine photographers whose work makes up the majority of the approximately 850,000 African-American images held in the archives of the Institute including Roland Charles, Guy Crowder, Jack Davis, Bob Douglas, Joe Flowers, Maxie Floyd, Calvin Hicks, Bob Moore, and Charles Williams.

For more Information on the Exhibit please visit The Institute for Media Arts site at : http://bit.ly/vORc1a