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  • Portrait with Veil (1978)

    Roland Charles

    Roland Charles was a multitalented photographer who explored art, documentary, and commercial photography. He produced Portrait with Veil in his studio, which was located in the Cecil B. DeMille Building in Hollywood. Roland was among the first of his generation to explore photography as a means of self-expression rather than as a documentary tool. One can also detect a sociopolitical motivation in his oeuvre, as his photographs explore elements of strength and beauty in his African American subjects, and they stand as an antidote to the popular culture images of the postwar period. His dedication to African American art was given further voice when he and three colleagues established The Black Photographers of California and opened The Black Gallery so that other artists would have a venue for their work.


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • Figure Study #3 (1973)

    Calvin Hicks


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • Figure Study #4 (1974)

    Calvin Hicks


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • Nixon Campaign (1950)

    Charles Williams


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • Garage with Corvaire (1963)

    Charles Williams


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • "Umbrella" Kenneth Hahn (1950)

    Charles Williams


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • Crossing Guard (1960)

    Harry Adams


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • The Mad Hatters (1964)

    Harry Adams


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • Untitled (1975)

    James Jeffery


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • John Outterbridge (1978)

    James Jeffery


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • The Stoop (1977)

    Roland Charles


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • Deborah Santana (1972)

    Roland Charles


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • James Baldwin, N.Y. (1980)

    Alex Green


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • V-J Day (1945)

    Charles Williams


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Julian Bond (1968)

    Harry Adams


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • Watts Revisited Series (1989)

    Willie Middlebrook


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

  • Watts Revisited Series (1989)

    Willie Middlebrook


    Giclee
    © Institute for Arts and Media, California State University Northridge

California State University Northridge Art Galleries

Identity and Affirmation: Post War African American Photography

Identity and Affirmation: Post War African American Photography will consist of 145 images produced by Los Angeles artists, exploring modernist tendencies in the work of the artists as they embraced and depicted the vibrant development of the arts, music, politics, family, and social life in the Black community and Los Angeles at large. The innovative improvisations of jazz, of particular importance during this period, 1945 – 1980, can be seen in the work of these photographers in both their subjects and approaches to photography. The photographs will be drawn from the collections of nine of the photographers whose work makes up the majority of the approximately 750,000 African-American images held in the archives of the Institute including Roland Charles, Guy Crowder, Jack Davis, Bob Douglas, Joe Flowers, Maxie Floyd, Calvin Hicks, Bob Moore, and Charles Williams.
10/23/2011 – 12/10/2011
California State University Northridge Art Galleries
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330