Working together : Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Eckhardt Sarah L. ; Draper Louis H. (1935-2002) ; Willis Deborah (1948-....) ; Duganne Erina (19..-....) ; Crawford Romi ; Mason John Edwin (1954-....) ;
- ISBN : 978-1-934351-17-8
- Sujets : Photographes noirs américains 20e siècle, United States, Photographies, Catalogues d'exposition, Draper, Louis H., Kamoinge
- Comprend : Photographs
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-300 p.), : Ill. en noir et blanc, couv. ill., 32 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée au Virginia Museum of Fine Arts du 1er février au 14 juin 2020 ; au Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, du 17 juillet au 25 octobre 2020 ; au J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, du 29 juin au 26 septembre 2021 et au Cincinnati Art Museum au printemps 2022 ; Bibliographie. Index
Résumé
'Inspired by the archive of Richmond native Louis Draper VMFA has organized an unprecedented exhibition that chronicles the first twenty years of the Kamoinge Workshop a group of African American photographers he helped to found in 1963 More than 180 photographs by fifteen of the early membersAnthony Barboza Adger Cowans Danny Dawson Roy DeCarava Louis Draper Al Fennar Ray Francis Herman Howard Jimmie Mannas Jr Herb Randall Herb Robinson Beuford Smith Ming Smith Shawn Walker and Calvin Wilsonreveal the vision and commitment of this remarkable group of artists When the collective began in New York City they selected the name Kamoinge which means 'a group of people acting and working together' in Gikuyu the language of the Kikuyu people of Kenya They met weekly exhibited and published together and pushed each other to expand the boundaries of photography as an art form during a critical era of Black selfdetermination in the 1960s and 1970s The group organized several shows in their own gallery space in addition to exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the International Center for Photography They were also the driving force behind The Black Photographers Annual a publication founded by Kamoinge member Beuford Smith which featured the work of a wide variety of Black photographers at a time when mainstream publications offered them few opportunities In the continuing spirit of Kamoinge Shawn Walker Beuford Smith Herb Robinson and Tony Barboza have also made significant archival contributions and are among the nine members who recorded oral histories to provide the fullest account of the group's first two decades In addition through a generous grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities VMFA has digitized the Draper archivewhich will be available online ; Exhibition and catalogue draw works and archival material from Louis H Draper 19352002 and includes work from the Komoinge Workshop and it's founding members including Louis Draper Anthony Barboza Adger Cowens Danny Dawson Al Fennar Ray Francis Herman Howard Jimmie Mannas Herb Randall Herb Robinson Beuford Smith Ming Smith Shawn Walker and Calvin Wilson