'Being at the Whitney is a great thing' Bridgeport photographer Adger Cowans says
Joel Lang
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"Momma's Ohio Piano" by Adger Cowans.Courtesy of Adger Cowans and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts / Contributed photo
A new exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrates a group of 14 mostly amateur photographers who in the early 1960s in Harlem founded what came to be called the Kamoinge Collective, determined to remake the image of Black America.
Unique among them is Bridgeport’s own Adger Cowans. Then the group’s lone professional with art school training, Cowans has lived in the Read’s Artspace Building since 2006 and at age 84 remains very active.