Overlooked Black photo collective influenced a new generation
The work of the influential photography collective the Kamoinge Workshop, founded in 1963, laid the groundwork for Black artists and photographers to soar.
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The work of the influential photography collective the Kamoinge Workshop, founded in 1963, laid the groundwork for Black artists and photographers to soar.
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Adger Cowans, Footsteps, 1960. (Courtesy of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Aldine S. Hartman Endowment Fund / The Whitney Museum of American Art) When the Kamoinge Workshop began in 1963, taking its name from a Kikuyu word meaning “a group of people acting together,” a few Black photographers had already gained some prominence. Gordon Parks was probably chief among them. After starting as a portraitist in Chicago, he had gone on to work during the war years with the renowned photography program of the Farm Security Administration, best known for sending the likes of Walker Evans and Doro...