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Photo: Teddyyy, Wiki Commons The American singer Nina Simone in concert in Morlaix (Brittany, France) in May 1982. The contributions Black Americans have made from politics to science to the arts and everything in between cannot be overstated. This, of course, applies to Pittsburgh as well, which has produced a number of Black innovators and pioneers...

Reviews - January 14, 2021 In 2016, on the occasion of an exhibition of the photographs of Louis Draper at Steven Kasher Gallery, Hyperallergic critic John Yau asked, “Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know about This Great Photographer?” Apparently, they didn’t. Although Draper, who had died in 2002, was a prominent Black photographer and one-time president of the Kamoinge Workshop, there was little evidence that New York’s august Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) had paid much attention....

Black Art Matters At the Whitney Museum, the enduring legacy of the Kamoinge photography collective — 14 distinctive talents finally in the spotlight. Ming Smith’s “America Seen Through Stars and Stripes,” New York City, circa 1976, in the show “Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.Credit...Ming Smith and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Jan. 13, 2021 It’s only fairly recently that the mainstream art world, which likes to ...

A selection of over 100 photos by the group are on view in a survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York called Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, which runs until 28 March. “The 1960s and 1970s were a time of social unrest, as ours is at this point,” said Whitney curator Carrie Springer (this traveling exhibition from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is curated by Sarah Eckhardt) “Looking at how they centered their artwork on depicting the communit...

Blurring the Lines Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph, offers a comprehensive survey of a pioneering body of work. Born in Detroit but based in New York since the early 1970s, Ming Smith was the first female African-American photographer to have her work acquired by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. She has mastered a blurry, impressionistic style emulating the mixture of spontaneity and detail in the jazz music she often evokes with her images. Raised in Columbus, Ohio, Ming Smith’s ch...

  >> Siddhartha Mitter, The New York Times  Published: 03 Jan 2021 11:32 AM BdST Updated: 03 Jan 2021 11:32 AM BdST Shawn Walker was up on 125th Street in Harlem with Louis Draper and Ray Francis, hanging out and taking pictures. It was the summer of 1964, and the friends, in their 20s, were members of a fledgling photography collective called the Kamoinge Workshop. That’s when celebrated photographer Roy DeCarava walked up. The workshop’s mentor at the time, DeCarava was on assignment th...

Working Together Saturday 21 November 2020 - Sunday 28 March 2021 - Event ended. Working Together is an unprecedented exhibition that chronicles the formative years of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers established in New York City in 1963. “Kamoinge” comes from the language of the Kikuyu people of Kenya, meaning “a group of people acting together,” and reflects the ideal that animated the collective. In the early years, at a time of dramatic social upheaval, mem...

Baltimore Museum of Art announces final 2020 Vision acquisitions Loïs Mailou Jones. Untitled (Two Women). c. 1945. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Image Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY. BALTIMORE, MD .-The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today 33 new acquisitions made as part of its 2020 Vision initiative, which includes a commitment to on...

Inside page of Peter Beard published by TASCHEN. Why it’s worth it: When the writer, photographer, and all-around bon vivant Peter Beard died this year at age 82, he left an indelible mark on the art world and everyone he met, from the wilds of Africa to the seedy bars of New York City. His life was marked by a ferocious pursuit of adventure, photographing endangered species and documenting his travels in beautifully intimate diaristic form, collaging photographs with drawings and notation....

‘Take Beautiful Pictures of Our People’ Born in 1960s Harlem, the Kamoinge collective was influential in Black photography but ignored by the mainstream until recently. This exhibition should change that. Anthony Barboza photographed “Kamoinge Members” in 1973. Back row, from left: Albert R. Fennar, Ray Francis, Herbert Randall, C. Daniel Dawson, Beuford Smith, Herb Robinson, Adger Cowans and Anthony Barboza. Front row, from left: Herman Howard, Ming Smith, James Mannas Jr., Louis...