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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [MUSIC]. A group of 2 photographs taken by African American photographers Al SMITH (1916-2008) and John WHITE (b. 1945), incl. young dancers and gospel singers.
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [MUSIC]. A group of 2 photographs taken by African American photographers Al SMITH (1916-2008) and John WHITE (b. 1945), incl. young dancers and gospel singers.

Al Smith (1916-2008)
Jazz

Silver gelatin photograph, circa 1940s (printed later), image 14 3/4 x 20 inches (sheet 17 x 22 inches), minor creasing at edge, signed and titled in gold in lower right. 

Smith is best remembered for photographing Seattle's Central District neighborhood, capturing the community during the Great Depression, World War II, and the Civil Rights movement. 

[With:] John N. White (b. 1945). 
Members of Vision - A Coral Ministry perform at Daley Center Plaza.

Silver gelatin press photo, 1991, image 10 1/4 x 6 5/16 in. (sheet 10 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.), minor crease at upper left, with photographer's credit and Chicago Sun-Times labels affixed verso. 

Press photo taken by Black photojournalist John N. White who spent the majority of his career at the Chicago Sun-Times and was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1982. 

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