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The Carnegie Museum of Art Presents the Photographs of Teenie Harris

artwork: Charles "Teenie" Harris - "Boxers, possibly Golden Gloves contenders, lined up in boxing ring", circa 1955 - Black-and-white negative - Collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh © Teenie Harris Archive. on view in "Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story" from October 29th until April 7th 2012.


Pittsburgh, PA.- The Carnegie Museum of Art is proud to present “Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story” on view from October 29th through April 7th 2012. This groundbreaking exhibition will celebrate the artist/photographer whose work is considered one of the most complete portraits anywhere of 20th-century African American experience. Large-scale, themed photographic projections of nearly 1,000 of Teenie Harris’s greatest images accompanied by an original jazz soundtrack will generate an immersive experience in the exhibition’s opening gallery. Subsequent galleries will present a chronological display of these photographs at a conventional scale, and give visitor access to the more than 73,000 catalogued and digitized images in the museum’s Teenie Harris Archive. The exhibition will offer an examination of Harris’s working process and artistry, and audio commentary on the man and his work by the people who knew him. In addition, the photographs and many of these materials will be accessible on Carnegie Museum of Art’s website.