biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1919– )
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| biography:
| Artist and photographer, born in New York City, New York, USA. While working as a commercial artist (1944–56), he switched to photography and was the first African-American awarded a Guggenheim (1952). In 1955 he published The Sweet Flypaper of Life with pictures of blacks in Harlem. A successful freelance photographer working for advertising agencies and magazines (1959–75), he organized workshops for African-American photographers and was a professor at Hunter College (1979). |
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