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African American Photographers in Georgia – Tuesday Tips

February 24, 2015 · by · in Documentary photography, photo-history, photographers, Research · 4 Comments

John W. Johnston (1882-1966) advertisement, May 5, 1917 Savannah Tribune  Before we are completely out of February, and Black History Month, I wanted to do an update on those Georgia photographers and their associates whom I know to be African American. At least one of these photographers was born in the West Indies (John W. Johnston, […]

Georgia Photographers, Oh My Stars!

October 7, 2014 · by · in photo-history, photographers, Research · 2 Comments

The week before I left for Austin and the Daguerreian Society Symposium, when I should have been doing other things, I took time out to do some online research on a photographer I knew worked in Tifton, Georgia. I wanted to know more about him – just because. Per usual, other photographers, actually several, appeared […]