PHOTOGRAPHS BY FOUR AFRICAN AMERICAN PHOTOJOURNALISTS
2024-04-01The exhibition consists of a sampling of about a dozen images per artist, each revealing a distinctive vision and a keen ability to capture the moments that tells us so much not only about their subject but about the picture maker themselves.
Eli Reed has the distinction of being the first black photographer to become a member of the elite photojournalists collective Magnum Photos along with its’ prestigious international roster of some of the finest photographers in the field. Reed’s images are a study of the human condition. While many focus on the lives of people of color in all strata of society from the impoverished to the gifted and celebrated, he treats all his subjects with dignity and deference. Reed’s 1994 canny portrait of Gordon Parks and his daughter Toni taken in London, reveal their faces etched with what feels like a complicated and perhaps difficult moment in a father-daughter relationship.
Opposite – Eli Reed, Crown Heights riot, Brooklyn, NY 1991
Exhibition runs through to April 19th, 2024
Keith De Lellis Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York
NY 10022
