Kamoinge’s Half-Century of African-American Photography

A new book takes a look at the collective’s groundbreaking work in “speaking of our lives as only we can.”

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/kamoinges-half-century-of-african-american-photography/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

In the early 1960s, when African-American photographers were keenly aware of their isolation in a field dominated by white men, two collectives held a joint meeting. The result of that encounter was a decision to merge and form a more robust group they called Kamoinge, which in Kenya’s Kikuyu language means a group of people acting together.