Adger Cowans
1936–

Introduction

Adger Cowans is an American fine arts photographer and abstract painter.

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Q26695649

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Roles

Artist, painter, photographer

ULAN identifier

500655797

Names

Adger Cowans, Adger W. Cowans

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2 works

Exhibitions

Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop

Nov 21, 2020–Mar 28, 2021

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Adger Cowans, Djuka Woman and Child (Balance), 1969

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Adger Cowans, Djuka Woman and Child (Balance), 1969

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Adger Cowans: Suriname was called Dutch Vienna at that time. They had just won their independence. So, it was a great time to be there.
Narrator: Adger Cowans took this photograph deep in the Suriname jungle in 1969.
Adger Cowans: When I got to Suriname, I walked around in that village for a week without a camera. I didn’t even have my camera. And then the next week I put my camera on my shoulder and I’d walk around and people would ask me, oh what is that what is that. Blah blah blah, we’d get into conversations.
When I first got there they looked at me like, he’s a strange-looking guy, you know. I got you know got you know jodphur boots on and Levi pants and blue shirt and shades and an Afro [laughs]. And the camera. Like what? But then after a while, you working, and they begin to trust me.

Adger Cowans
1936–

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Adger Cowans, Djuka Woman and Child (Balance), 1969

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Adger Cowans 1936–

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Adger Cowans, Djuka Woman and Child (Balance), 1969

Adger Cowans
1936–