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Return to African American Photographer Henry Clay Anderson
| Henry Clay Anderson - Anderson Collection: The Prom Couple #7/10 |
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Contact: Charles Schwartz
Email: cms@cs-photo.com
Phone: 212-534-4496
Company: Charles Schwartz Ltd.
Company: 21 East 90th Street
Company: New York, NY 10128 USA
URL: http://www.cs-photo.com
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| Ref.#: 10878 |
| Price: $900 |
| Medium: Gelatin Silver Print |
| Mount: not mounted |
| Image Date: 1960's |
| Print Date: 2007 |
| Dimensions: 14 x 11 in. (356 x 279 mm) |
| Photo Country: United States (USA) |
| Photographer Country: United States (USA) |
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| Description: Henry Clay Anderson ran the Anderson Photo Service in Greenville, Mississippi from the late 1940s to the '60s, and during that time every aspect of African-American life came before his lens. Though highly segregated, Greenville was the site of a thriving middle-class, African-American community—an aspect of American life that is all-too-rarely documented. Pictured is a young couple, dancing at their high school prom--a location that Anderson would have often been called upon to document, as he was also the local school's photographer.
From a portfolio of 10 prints, printed in an edition of 10, posthumously from Anderson’s original negatives by Laurent Girard. This image is # 7 of 10.
This photograph is accompanied by a copy of an award-winning documentary about Mr. Anderson's photographs and the stories surrounding them: Separate, But Equal - winner of the 2011 HBO Best Documentary Film award at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (made by Shawn Wilson).
Illustrated in "Separate But Equal," PublicAffairs: New York, 2002. p. 40. 1 |
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