Getty Museum opens marvelous Kamoinge Workshop photography show
A 1963 collective of Black artists resisted the stereotypes of mass media. The power of their image-making is on exhibition in L.A. for a limited time.
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The Unknown Radicals of Black Photography
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...
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