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As part of Black History Month, the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York recently held a special retrospective to showcase the images of African-American photographer Louis Draper. The accompanying book, Timeless: Photographs by Kamoinge (Schiffer), includes work produced both by Draper and by members of the pioneering Kamoinge Workshop which Draper co-founded in 1963, around the time the Civil Rights Act was passed. Kamoinge, which translates to "a group of people acting together" in Kenya’s Kikuyu language, was the name given to this collective whose aim was to address the under-representation of African-Americans within the art world and to defy the stereotypical ‘headline images’ of black people presented in the media. Of Kamoinge, Draper said: “We nurture and challenge each other in order to attain the highest creative level.” ....