Whitney: ‘King is Dead: Screening and Conversation’ / Feb 17, 7 PM + Kamoinge Workshop…

Plan a trip to explore Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop. On view through March 28, this unprecedented exhibition chronicles the formative years of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers established in New York City in 1963. Also on view is Salman Toor: How Will I Know. The New York Times calls the exhibition a “brilliant debut” by Salman Toor who “refreshes figurative painting by using it as a means to explore identity.”

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Find inspiration from home through our many virtual events. Join us tonight at 7 pm for a special screening of a film by Kamoinge Workshop artist James M. Mannas Jr. Details below.

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KING IS DEAD: SCREENING AND CONVERSATION

Wednesday, February 17
7 pm

Kamoinge Workshop artist James M. Mannas Jr. screens his 1968 film King is Dead (1968), an account of the reactions in his New York community following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The screening is followed by a conversation with Mannas and filmmaker RaMell Ross, moderated by Whitney assistant curator Carrie Springer.

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Image credits:Installation view of Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 21, 2020–March 28, 2021). Left: Anthony Barboza, Kamoinge Portrait, 1973. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

James Mannas Jr., No Way Out, Harlem, NYC, 1964. Gelatin silver print: sheet, 15 1/16 × 11 in. (38.26 × 27.94 cm), image, 8 5/16 × 6 3/8 in. (21.11 × 16.19 cm). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment. © Jimmie Mannas

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