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Black Art Matters
At the Whitney Museum, the enduring legacy of the Kamoinge photography collective 14 distinctive talents finally in the spotlight.
Ming Smith’s “America Seen Through Stars and Stripes,” New York City, circa 1976, in the show “Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.Credit.Ming Smith and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Jan. 13, 2021
It’s only fairly recently that the mainstream art world, which likes to think of itself as progressive, has fully begun to embrace the idea that Black art matters. Even a few decades ago, if you were an African-American artist, you could realistically expect to find your work excluded from major i.e. white-run museums. For you, the marketing machinery that makes careers didn’t exist. Galleries weren’t showing you. Collectors weren’t buying you. Critics weren’t looking your way.
Working Together
Saturday 21 November 2020 - Sunday 28 March 2021 - Event ended.
Working Together is an unprecedented exhibition that chronicles the formative years of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers established in New York City in 1963. “Kamoinge” comes from the language of the Kikuyu people of Kenya, meaning “a group of people acting together,” and reflects the ideal that animated the collective. In the early years, at a time of dramatic social upheaval, members met regularly to show and discuss each other’s work and to share their critical perspectives, technical and professional experience, and friendship. Although each artist had his or her own sensibility and developed an independent career, the members of Kamoinge were deeply committed to photography s power and status as an independent art form. They boldly and inventively depicted their communities as they saw and participated in them, rather than as they were often portrayed.