Chester Higgins Jr. | |
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 Higgins in 1994 | |
| Born | 1946 (age 77–78) Fairhope, Alabama, United States |
| Alma mater | Tuskegee Institute |
| Known for | Photography |
| Awards | International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum |
| Website | www |
Chester Higgins Jr. (born November 1946) is an American photographer,[1][2][3][4] who was a staff photographer with The New York Times for more than four decades, and whose work has notably featured the life and culture of people of African descent.[5][6] His photographs have over the years appeared in magazines including Look, Life, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Ebony, Essence and Black Enterprise, and Higgins has also published several collections of his photography, among them Black Woman (1970), Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa (1994), Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging (2000), and Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey (2004).[7]
- ^ Suzanne Muchnik, "Traveling the Globe to Document the Spirit of a People", Los Angeles Times, January 6, 1996.
- ^ Chester Higgins Jr biography, BrotherMen, PBS.
- ^ "Chester Higgins: Omo Spirit Narrative", Tadias.com, March 5, 2009.
- ^ Pete Dulin, "Invoking the Spirit: The Photography of Chester Higgins", Present Magazine, April 11, 2007. Archived July 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Chester Higgins Jr.", All About Photo.
- ^ Patrick A. Howell, "Iconic Photographer Chester Higgins Jr. Opens Our World through the Lens of His I", The Good Men Project, February 14, 2018.
- ^ "Chester Higgins, Jr. Biography", The HistoryMakers.