#kamoingeworkshop

[brynny-md]

Celebrating the exhibition Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop 📸 #KamoingeWorkshop is a collective of Black photographers formed in New York in 1963. They produced powerful images, sensitively registering Black life in the mid-20th century. 🎥 Check out the exhibit at the @gettymuseum until October 9, 2022. 📷 #gettycenter #gettymuseum #losangeles_city (at Getty Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChZwjl1vYPo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[asalvadorsala]

#KamoingeWorkshop https://www.instagram.com/p/CYNDVcANR-y/?utm_medium=tumblr

[trascapades]

🖤📷 #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackHistoryMonth The @librarycongress has acquired the archive of photographer #ShawnWalker and an archival collection of #Harlem's #KamoingeWorkshop #photography collective. It's a major addition to the prints and photographs collection here at the national library. The Shawn Walker archive contains nearly 100,000 photographs, negatives and transparencies depicting life in Harlem — a pivotal crossroad of African diaspora culture — between 1963 and the present. The Kamoinge collection — generously donated by Walker — consists of nearly 2,500 items, including prints by Kamoinge members such as Barboza, Draper, Smith and others. See more at loc.gov/news. Reposted from @librarycongress #BlackPhotographers #BlackPhotoHistory #Culture #TheBlackExperience #HarlemGirl #HarlemPhotographs #libraryofcongress #collections #shawnwalker #archive #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 https://www.instagram.com/p/B8zANLRAq_i/?igshid=odl0cvhxwfdd

[aperture-foundation]

"During an era in which black artists were routinely excluded from the mainstream art world, Kamoinge—from one generation to next—exemplified the principle that black artists could not afford to dismiss, or be blind to, important realities within their communities." – LeRonn P. Brooks  

In the 1960s, a group of African American photographers formed a collective to promote their work. For Ming Smith, the experience was transformative. Read more from Vision & Justice online.

Image: Ming Smith, Brown Skinned Model and Steeple, New York, 1971. Courtesy the artist