Adger Cowan’s Intimate Chronicle of Black American Life

Reflecting on six decades of work from the groundbreaking photographer at the forefront of the Black Arts Movement.

Mississippi, 1963 © Adger W. Cowans. Courtesy of the artist and Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York

Over the past 85 years, Adger Cowans has not only born witness to history — he has helped shape it. The first Black photographer admitted into the I...

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