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Warren K. Leffler's photograph of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the National Mall. Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the civil rights movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans and the nonviolent response of the movement.
Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1899 – February 2, 1979 [1]) was an American painter, illustrator, and visual arts educator. He was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. [2] He developed his art career painting murals and creating illustrations that addressed social issues around race and segregation in the United States by utilizing African-centric imagery. [3]
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography.
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was an African-American-led art movement that was active during the 1960s and 1970s. [3] Through activism and art, BAM created new cultural institutions and conveyed a message of black pride. [4]
African-American art is known as a broad term describing visual art created by African Americans. The range of art they have created, and are continuing to create, over more than two centuries is as varied as the artists themselves. [1]
AfriCOBRA was founded on the South Side of Chicago by a group of artists intent on defining a "black aesthetic." AfriCOBRA artists were associated with the Black Arts Movement in America, a movement that began in the mid-1960s and that celebrated culturally-specific expressions of the contemporary Black community in the realms of literature, theater, dance and the visual arts. [6]
First African-American woman director of a major-studio movie: Darnell Martin (Columbia Pictures' I Like It Like That) First African-American woman to win as artist and producer for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year: Whitney Houston (The Bodyguard)