Special Event
Photography and Beyond in the Kamoinge Workshop
Wednesday, March 3
7:00 p.m. EDT
Kamionge Workshop artists Adger Cowans, Herb Robinson, and Beuford Smith discuss their interdisciplinary artistic influences and interests, from music and film to painting and publishing. The program is moderated by LeRonn P. Brooks, associate curator for modern and contemporary collections, Getty Research Institute
Presented in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, this series of programs features conversations with artists from the Kamoinge Workshop included in the exhibition Working Together: Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop currently on view at the Whitney. The talks explore the group’s genesis in Harlem in the 1960s, its role in the Black Arts movement, and the multidisciplinary interests and practices of its members, bringing together artists from the Kamoinge Workshop with scholars and critics of Black arts and culture.
Image caption: Adger Cowans, Shadows, 1966. Gelatin silver print: sheet, 10 15/16 × 14 in. (27.8 × 35.6 cm); image: 7 9/16 × 11 1/4in. (19.2 × 28.6 cm); frame: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Aldine S. Hartman Endowment Fund. ©️ Adger Cowans
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