Pin-Up Photograph by Joseph Jasgur
February 10, 2013 on Flickr.
Link: University of Kansas showcases historic black photography online
[The University of Kansas is now making a historic collection of images showcasing African-American life available online.
The collection, compiled from the work of African-American photographer Leon K. Hughes, is called “African American Life in Wichita, Kansas” and features photos of the city’s black community life from the late 1940s to the 1970s.
According to the KU website, Hughes was a self-taught photographer. He and his wife, Rose, began a home-based photography business in 1946 for which he captured photos of the community for the next three decades. In 2009, his wife gifted the collection of more than 2,700 images to the university.
The collection’s archivist, Deborah Dandridge, said the photos showing weddings, graduations and church and school gatherings coincide with the arrival of thousands of African-American newcomers from nearby states and the South to the city.
“These photographs suggest how African-Americans, for centuries, refused to allow the nation’s color line deny them experiences of love, faith, dignity and grace,” Dandrige added.
The entire Leon K. Hughes Collection can be viewed here.
Time to open Photoshop…
and edit a few more photos
Long Shadow on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
A recent Saturday morning found me awake at 5:30am. Since I could fall back to sleep I grabbed the camera and headed to the Lake
Newsmen on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
A recent Saturday morning found me awake at 5:30am. Since I could fall back to sleep I grabbed the camera and headed to the Lake
So far I’m planning to go to the graveyard near my house to shoot some photos this weekend. I haven’t been out with my camera much this year (for various reasons). I’m kind of excited, though.
“Boy With Sapphire Eyes” © Vanessa Bristow
No, it’s not Photoshopped. Here is a comment from the photographer herself:
To all of you DOUBTING THOMAS’S out there who distrust the originality of this photograph: It is NOT Photoshopped. I was in the local communal lands looking for my lost Dalmatian dog, and I stopped to ask his mother if she had seen it. While I was talking to her, her son, who was playing with his siblings and friends nearby, caught my eye. I asked her if I could photograph him, and this is the first picture that I took of him – it was possibly his first interaction up close with a white person, and his fascination in me, or in the camera, is plainly evident. I took a few photos of him at the time, and a few more later on a follow-up. An ophthalmologist friend had this to say about his unusual eyes:
“The picture of the little boy with the blue eyes and dark skin probably represents Ocular Albinism or Nettleship-Falls albinism, or Juvenile uveitis. Both conditions cause the pigment of the iris to be less dense.”
Thanks for all the support from those of you who like my picture.
The below picture of Theuns was taken a week or two after the first. This time, he was much more relaxed with me, and I let him “click” the camera a few times to get him to engage with me.
He’s so adorable!!
“The black-light posters identify this space immediately as Bob’s Place in Watts. You risked your life by going there, but that was where the gigs were happening in 1982 and 1983. The last show there was raided by some locals who were clearly miffed that suburban white punks had taken over their dance hall. They raided the gig, mugging punks for their cameras. A girl was raped in the bathroom. That was the end of Bob’s Place. JORDAN SCHWARTZ”
