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Louis Draper

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The Living Legacy of the Kamoinge Workshop, a Force in Black Photography

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo January 20, 2021January 19, 2021

The influential collective created a rigorous yet non-hierarchical sphere of influence, which challenges the very tidiness of retrospectives like Working Together.

Posted inArt

An Annual Compendium of Black Photography that Was a Revolutionary Act

by John Edwin Mason August 4, 2017August 3, 2017

In 1973, a small band of black artists published the Black Photographers Annual, Volume I, a book that changed the history of photography in America.

Posted inArt

A Few Thoughts About 2016

by John Yau January 1, 2017June 9, 2020

A look back at a critic’s reviews, views, and articles.

Posted inArt

A Photographer Who Captured the Complexity of Black Life in Lyrical Ways

by John Edwin Mason June 24, 2016June 27, 2016

Louis Draper resisted labels. He knew that they could confine, like boxes, but much worse, they might be like prison cells: impossible to escape.

Posted inOpinion

Follow-Up to My Review: Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know About This Great Photographer?

by John Yau February 13, 2016February 29, 2016

Very soon after my review of Louis Draper was published in Hyperallergic Weekend (February 7, 2016), I got an email from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and from the Museum of Modern Art.

Posted inArt

Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know About This Great Photographer?

by John Yau February 7, 2016February 11, 2016

In November 1955, four days after Robert Frank was arrested, questioned, and released in Arkansas under the suspicion of being a Communist spy, he took a photograph, ‘‘Trolley — New Orleans’’ (1955), that was included with eighty-two others in his justly famous book, The Americans, which – we should remember — was first published in France in 1958.

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Celebrating Photographers of Color and the Collectives That Have Nurtured Them

by John Edwin Mason March 20, 2015March 25, 2015

“And who else is there?” A staff member at a well-known photo festival and I were nearing the end of an awkward conversation.

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