11:00 - 12:00
United States
Delight in the life and photographic works of Moneta Sleet, Jr., staff photographer at Ebony magazine for over forty years.
Jehoiada Calvin, Archivist at the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) Archive, presents on the life and legacy of Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Moneta Sleet, Jr. (1926-1996). Starting in 1955, Sleet captured images of Black people in America and throughout the world for JPC magazines like Ebony and Jet and produced iconic images of the Civil Rights Movement, particularly of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1969 Sleet became the first Black person to win a Pulitzer Prize, which was awarded for his photograph of Coretta Scott King at her husband’s funeral. Jehoiada shares images from the Archive of Sleet's published and unpublished work while exploring how his photographs have impacted visual culture and politics today.
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