Art History From Home: Working Together: Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop
Thurs, Mar 11, 2021
12 pm
Ming Smith, Amen Corner Sisters, Harlem, NY, 1976. Gelatin silver print: sheet, 20 1/16 × 16 in. (51 × 40.6 cm); image, 18 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (47 × 31.8 cm); frame, 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 61 cm). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund. © Ming Smith
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Learn more about the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective established in New York City in 1963 of Black photographers whose work is currently on view in the exhibition Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop. Although each artist had his or her own sensibility and developed an independent career, the members of Kamoinge were deeply committed to photography's power and status as an independent art form. They boldly and inventively depicted their communities as they saw and participated in them, rather than as they were often portrayed by the mainstream media.
Ayanna Dozier is an artist, lecturer, curator, and scholar. She recently completed her Ph.D. in art history and communication studies at McGill University. She is the author of the 33 ⅓ book on Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope. She is currently a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney and a lecturer in the department of communication and media studies at Fordham University.
