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  >> 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 that day for Newsweek. "); } Harlem had just experienced riots, after the killing of an unarmed Black...

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, members met regularly to show and discuss each other’s work and to share their critical perspectives,...

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 only purchase works by female-identifying artists this calendar year. Among the highlights entering th...

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. A gadfly who was equally at home as a social fixture, Beard delved into fashion photography, and co...

‘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 Draper, Calvin Wilson and Shawn Walker.Credit...Anthony Barboza and Whitney Museum of American Art ...