Kinship & Community: Highlights from the Texas African American Photography Archive

Celebrating the rich history of photography made by and for Black communities in Texas.

Kinship & Community presents an inspiring example of collective self-representation from the final decades of official segregation in the United States. With more than 150 images of everyday Black life—created by Black photographers for Black communities across Texas—this collection celebrates a proud but overlooked regional culture while testifying to the power of photography as a social tool. These photographers, typically operating small businesses that provided portraiture, promotional images, and event documentation, worked with their communities to develop an enduring vision of hope and uplift. Many also contributed photos to newspapers, magazines, and civil rights organizations, sometimes focusing on political leaders and protests. But their primary subject was the everyday expression of a vibrant and self-sufficient Black culture—an exhilarating achievement in the wider context of entrenched racial oppression. Completing the book is a vivid new photographic essay by Rahim Fortune that takes up the archive’s legacy and places it firmly in the present tense.

Copublished by Aperture and Documentary Arts.

Contributor: Nicole R. Fleetwood (Edited by), Brian Wallis (Edited by), Annette Gordon-Reed (Contributions by), Alan Govenar (Contributions by), Deborah Willis (Foreword by), Rahim Fortune (Photographs by)

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