Working together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop

Abstract

Exhibition and catalogue draw works and archival material from Louis H. Draper, 1935-2002, and includes work from the Komoinge Workshop and it's founding members including Louis Draper, Anthony Barboza, Adger Cowens, Danny Dawson, Al Fennar, Ray Francis, Herman Howard, Jimmie Mannas, Herb Randall, Herb Robinson, Beuford Smith, Ming Smith, Shawn Walker, and Calvin Wilson.

Contents

Director's Forward -- Preface / by Deborah Willis -- Curator's Remarks -- Louis Draper's History of the Kamoinge Workshop, 1972 -- An Introduction to Working Together / by Sarah L. Eckhardt -- Kamoinge Workshop Portfolio No. 1 -- Kamoinge Workshop Portfolio No. 2 -- A History of the Komoinge Workshop (1962-82) / by Sarah L. Eckhardt -- Kamoinge Artists' Book -- Before Kamoinge : Louis Draper's Artistic Formation / by Sarah L. Eckhardt -- Unlearning Street Photography from the Kamoinge Workshop / by Erina Duganne -- Reading Between the Photographs : Serious Sociality in the Kamoinge Workshop / by Romi Crawford -- The Sounds They Saw : Kamoinge and Jazz / by John Edwin Mason -- Do for Self! : Art, Commerce, Community, and the Kamoinge Workshop / by John Edwin Mason -- True & Free : A Creation Story of the Black Photographers Annual / by Bill Gaskins -- Catalogue Plates -- Biographies / by Sharayah Cochran -- Chronology / by Sharayah Cochran -- Select Bibliogrphay -- Index.