>From today's New York Times website:
News Photographer's Quick Eye Revealed an Artist at Heart
February 7, 2001
By STEPHEN KINZER
PITTSBURGH ? A huge trove of photographs that depict half a century
of black American life is about to go on view here, giving a vivid
face to communities seldom explored by outsiders.
The 84,000 images were controlled by a private dealer for more
than a decade. Now, because of a court decision, they have been
moved to a museum and are being excitedly reviewed by scholars.
The works are the legacy of Charles H. (Teenie) Harris, a staff
photographer for The Pittsburgh Courier who ceaselessly chronicled
daily existence on the Hill, then the center of black life in
Pittsburgh. Apparently he never threw away a negative, from the day
he started freelancing in the early 1930's until he died in 1998.
The rest of the article appears at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/07/arts/07TEEN.html
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