Photography
Charles "Teenie" Harris, "Pittsburgh Courier press operator," 1954, printed ca. 2000
- Item Number
- 9
- Estimated Value
- 1600 USD
- Opening Bid
- 750 USD
Item Description
Charles "Teenie" Harris (American, 1909-1998)
Pittsburgh Courier newspaper press operator, possibly printing
Chicago or other Midwestern edition, November 1954, printed ca. 2000
Printer: Gus Kayafus, Palm Press Inc., Concord, MA
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16 x 20 inches
Charles “Teenie” Harris is the subject of a much-acclaimed retrospective that premiered at the Carnegie Museum of Art in October 2011 and will tour nationally.
Harris grew up in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, a neighborhood once dubbed “the crossroads of the world.” A serious photographer from the age of 18, Harris’ photographs—made in his studio and for the Pittsburgh Courier,the leading black newspaper of the time—chronicle a vibrant black urban community during the Jim Crow and Civil Rights eras.
Harris captured not only the poetry of everyday experience, but the extraordinary people who resided in or visted Pittsburgh, from President John Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt to Billy Eckstine, Paul Robeson, and Jackie Robinson.
For other Teenie Harris photographs in the Auction, see items 63, 64 and 65.
All four images in the Auction have been published in one or all of the following monographs: Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2011); One Shot Harris: The Photographs of Charles "Teenie" Harris (Abrams, 2002) and Spirit of a Community: The Photographs of Charles "Teenie" Harris (Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 2001).
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