Chester Higgins Jr. (born November 1946) is an American
photographer,
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BrotherMen, PBS. who was a staff photographer with ''
The New York Times'' for more than four decades, and whose work has notably featured the life and culture of people of African descent. His photographs have over the years appeared in magazines including ''
Look
To look is to use sight to perceive an object.
Look or The Look may refer to:
Businesses and products
* Look (modeling agency), an Israeli modeling agency
* ''Look'' (American magazine), a defunct general-interest magazine
* ''Look'' (UK ma ...
'', ''
Life'', ''Time'', ''
Newsweek'', ''
Fortune
Fortune may refer to:
General
* Fortuna or Fortune, the Roman goddess of luck
* Luck
* Wealth
* Fortune, a prediction made in fortune-telling
* Fortune, in a fortune cookie
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''The Fortune'' (1931 film) ...
'', ''
Ebony'', ''
Essence'' and ''
Black Enterprise'', and Higgins has also published several collections of his photography, among them ''Black Woman'' (1970), ''Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa'' (1994), ''Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging'' (2000), and ''Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey'' (2004).
Life and work
Higgins was born in
Fairhope, Alabama, and grew up in
New Brockton, Alabama.
[Biography]
at Chester Higgins Jr website. He attended
Tuskegee Institute (now
Tuskegee University), where he was mentored by the school's official photographer,
P. H. Polk Prentice Herman Polk (November 25, 1898 – December 29, 1984) was an American photographer known for his portraits of African Americans. He also served for several years as head of the Tuskegee Institute's Department of Photography.
Early life
Pre ...
, and graduated in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in business management.
Higgins worked as a photographer for ''
The New York Times'' from 1975 and exhibited in museums throughout the world.
His work is included in the permanent collection of the
Museum of Modern Art and has been included in numerous book collections and appeared in publications such as ''
Newsweek'', ''
Fortune
Fortune may refer to:
General
* Fortuna or Fortune, the Roman goddess of luck
* Luck
* Wealth
* Fortune, a prediction made in fortune-telling
* Fortune, in a fortune cookie
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''The Fortune'' (1931 film) ...
'', ''
Look
To look is to use sight to perceive an object.
Look or The Look may refer to:
Businesses and products
* Look (modeling agency), an Israeli modeling agency
* ''Look'' (American magazine), a defunct general-interest magazine
* ''Look'' (UK ma ...
'', ''
Essence'' and ''
Life''.
In ''Sacred Nile'', Higgins narrates the story of the African beginnings of spirituality, antecedents of the Biblical world along the
River Nile from the 6,000-foot high mountains of Kush (modern-day
Ethiopia) through Nubia (
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
) down to the ancient land of Kemet (
Egypt).
Higgins is represented by
Bruce Silverstein Gallery
Bruce Silverstein Gallery is a photographic art gallery in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, New York City. It was started in 2001 by Bruce Silverstein. Archived February 6, 2008. The gallery is a member of the Association of International Pho ...
in New York City.
In 2022 Higgins was inducted into the
International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.
Published books
* with Fisher, Marjorie M; Peter Lacovara; Salima Ikram; Ssue H. D'Auria.
Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile'. American University Press Cairo, October 2012.
* with Betsy Kissam.
Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey', New York: Doubleday, October 2004. .
* with Betsy Kissam.
Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging', Boston: Bulfinch Press, November 2000.
*
Feeling The Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa', New York: Bantam Books, 1994. A portrait of the African Diaspora.
* with
Coombs, Orde,
Some Time Ago', New York: Doubleday/Anchor Press, 1980. A historical portrait of blacks in the United States between 1850 and 1950.
* with Coombs, Orde,
Drums of Life', New York: Doubleday/Anchor Press. A portrait of the universality of men and the uniqueness of being black in the 1970s.
* with McDougall, Harold,
Black Woman', New York: McCalls Publishing, 1970. A portrait of the universality of women and the uniqueness of being black during the 1960s.
* with Machobane, Burns,
Student Unrest at Tuskegee Institute: A Chronology', Behavioral Science Research Institute, Tuskegee University, Alabama, 1968. An academic community in conflict and its resolution.
References
External links
*
"Chester Higgins 'Show Me Your Soul' by Robert Glasper" YouTube video.
* Jordan Coley
"Chester Higgins’s Life in Pictures" ''
The New Yorker'', August 27, 2021.
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20th-century American photographers
American portrait photographers
African-American photographers
1946 births
Living people
20th-century African-American artists
21st-century African-American people