Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop

Nov 21, 2020–Mar 28, 2021


Exhibition works

15 total
Calvin Wilson
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Calvin Wilson


A close up portrait of a face wearing glasses.
A close up portrait of a face wearing glasses.

Anthony Barboza, Calvin Wilson, 1972. Gelatin silver print: sheet. 10 1/8 × 6 15/16 in. (25.7 × 17.6 cm); image: 8 3/16 × 5 5/8 in. (20.8 × 14.3 cm); frame: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; National Endowment for the Arts Fund for American Art. © Anthony Barboza

Calvin Wilson

Born 1924 in New York, NY
Died 1992 in New York, NY

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A boy in front of a tall gate.
A boy in front of a tall gate.

Calvin Wilson, New York No. 1, early 1960s. Gelatin silver print: mount, 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm); image: 13 13/16 × 9 9/16 in. (35.1 × 24.3 cm); frame: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; National Endowment for the Arts Fund for American Art

New York No. 1, early 1960s

A woman holding a cigarette in her hand and looking to the left.
A woman holding a cigarette in her hand and looking to the left.

Calvin Wilson, Untitled, 1964. Gelatin silver print; sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York; purchase. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY

Untitled, 1964

From Kamoinge Workshop Portfolio No. 1, 1964.

Two people in an alley walking away from the camera.
Two people in an alley walking away from the camera.

Calvin Wilson, New York, 1965. Gelatin silver print: sheet, 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York; gift of the Kamoinge Workshop. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY

New York, 1965

From Kamoinge Workshop Portfolio No. 2, 1965.


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