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View all 5 In the 1960s, a group of Black photographers from New York City began gathering in kitchens, living rooms, and galleries to critique each other's work. According to one of the workshop’s founders and its current president, Adger Cowans, they basically began as “bull sessions” where photographers would talk shop. “Sitting around, you know, eating chili and drinking wine, and talking about cameras and how to shoot,” Cowans said. Now their work is the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, but for some, it's a bittersweet moment for some of...

Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop Whitney Museum of American Art // November 21, 2020 - March 28, 2021 December 15, 2020 | in Photography Anthony Barboza, Kamoinge Portrait, 1973. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Jack E. Chachkes Endowed Purchase Fund 2020.55. © Anthony Barboza Adger Cowans, Footsteps, 1960. Gelatin silver print, image: 8 1/4 × 13 5/16 in. (20.96 × 33.81 cm). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Aldine S. Hartman Endowment Fund, 2018.201. © Adger Cowans Beuford Smith, Two Bass Hit, Lower East Side, 1972. Virginia M...