Getty Opens Access to 30,000 Photographs of Black History and Culture
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Getty Opens Access to 30,000 Photographs of Black History and Culture .
Getty Images will allow access to 30,000 Photographs from a black-and-white portrait of a reclined James Baldwin to a candid shot of a father and daughter on a Harlem park bench.
August 7, 1962, a student at the Jamaican School Of Arts And Crafts models a bust of a woman in clay. Photo by Central Press/Getty Images
The Black History and Culture Collection is part of a wider program of activity Getty Images has made toward anti‑racism, inclusion, and dismantling discrimination. To access the collection you must apply to Getty.
A group of girls in dresses and ballet slippers watch a girl perform dance movements as a woman accompanies her on an upright piano, 1920s or 1930s. Photo by FPG/Getty ImagesA father and daughter sitting on a bench by Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York City, New York, 1948. Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images1919 in New York. A parade in silent protest (anti-lynching) in Harlem. Photo by Bettmann/Getty ImagesWriter Ta-Nehisi Coates testifies during a hearing on slavery reparations held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties on June 19, 2019, in Washington, D.C. The subcommittee debated the H.R. 40 bill, which proposes a commission be formed to study and develop reparation proposals for African-Americans. Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty ImagesAmerican singer and actress Eartha Kitt (1927 to 2008, right) as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company, circa 1945. With her are other members of the dance troupe, Lawaune Ingram, Lucille Ellis, and Richardena Jackson. Photo by FPG/Archive Photos/Getty ImagesA photograph of author James Baldwin smoking a cigarette. Photo by Bettmann/UPI/Getty ImagesBotanist George Washington Carver donated $33,000 in cash to the Tuskegee Institute to establish a fund to carry on the agricultural and chemical work he began. Photo by Bettmann/UPI/Getty ImagesA mural of two hands holding up a dove symbolizing peace, possibly in the United States, circa 1960. The mural is signed by various artists and the words ‘Para Todas’ ‘For All’ are visible in Spanish and English. Photo by Frederic Lewis/Archive Photos/Getty ImagesBlack Archives joined forces with The Whitney Houston Estate and Sony Music to source archival footage to complement the lyrics to the song, “The Greatest Love of All,’ by Whitney Houston.
Image credits: Header photo courtesy of Library of Congress.
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