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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251127T110000
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URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/exhibition-kinship-community-sel
 ections-from-the-texas-african-american-photography-archive/
SUMMARY:Exhibition: Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African 
 American Photography Archive
DESCRIPTION:During the twentieth century\, nearly every small town in the U
 nited States boasted a local studio photographer. These skilled image make
 rs were dedicated to recording the portraits and events of their communiti
 es. Much of this vernacular visual culture has been dispersed or destroyed
 . Kinship &amp\; Community takes a look at a rare slice of that history\
 , focusing on the work of Black community photographers working in urban n
 eighborhoods in Dallas and Houston and small towns in East Texas from 1942
  to 1984.\n\nCentral to the exhibition is the role of the community photog
 rapher\, one who documents\, even shapes\, a close-knit place\, emphasizin
 g the people and rituals of everyday life. The photographs in Kinship &am
 p\; Community show aspects of everyday life: parties\, rodeos\, church me
 etings\, parades\, political gatherings\, and school photos. Although thes
 e works span some of the most volatile and consequential years of the Civi
 l Rights Movement\, they show collectively the daily experiences of Black 
 life in Texas against the backdrop of segregation.\n\nThe photographs in t
 his exhibition are drawn from the Texas African American Photography Archi
 ve (TAAP)\, founded in 1995 by writer and filmmaker Alan Govenar and artis
 t Kaleta Doolin. TAAP is a project of the Dallas-based cultural organizati
 on Documentary Arts\, a unique repository that preserves over 60\,000 phot
 ographs by Black small-town Texas photographers\, from 1870 to the present
 \, including the archives of more than a dozen individual photography stud
 ios.\n\nKinship &amp\; Community was curated by Nicole R. Fleetwood with 
 research assistance from Eva Cilman and Anisa Jackson.\n\nThis exhibition 
 is accompanied by the publication Kinship &amp\; Community: Selections fr
 om the Texas African American Photography Archive\, Nicole R. Fleetwood a
 nd Brian Wallis\, editors  (forthcoming from Aperture and Documentary Art
 s).\n\nIMAGE: Social tea hosted by Josie Washington (standing center in bl
 ack)\, Dallas\, Texas. ca. 1955. Unknown photographer.
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CATEGORIES:Art,Community,Museum and historic site hours
LOCATION:Center for Photography at Woodstock(CPW)\, 25 Dederick St. \, King
 ston\, NY\, 12401\, United States
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