Beuford Smith
1941–
Introduction
Beuford Smith (1936–2025) was an American photographer.
Smith was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sources differ on his birth year. the African American Registry and the New York Times list his birthday as April 12, 1936. Several sources list his birth year as 1941.
Smith was a member of the Kamoinge Workshop. He was also a founding editor of the Black Photographers Annual.
In 2020 his work was included in the traveling exhibition Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop. His work was included in the 2025 exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 at the National Gallery of Art. In 2026 the Keith de Lellis Gallery held a retrospective entitled Beuford Smith : A Retrospective of Community, Witness, and History.
Smith's photographs are in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Modern Art,the National Gallery of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Wikidata identifier
Q28871217
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Introduction
Socially conscious photographer created images of life in Black communities in New York City, including jazz musicians and the aftermath of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was a member of the Kamoinge Workshop.
Country of birth
United States
Roles
Artist, photographer
ULAN identifier
500467583
Names
Beuford Smith
Information from the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License. Accessed February 21, 2026.
