- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (10 video files (4 hr., 39 min., 8 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Photojournalist Chester Higgins Jr. was born in Fairhope, Alabama on November 6, 1946. Graduating in 1970 with his B.A. degree in business management from Tuskegee University, Higgins arrived in New York and began his professional career. Higgins produced several photo essay books including Black Woman in 1970, and Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging in 2000. An exhibit of his work, "Landscapes of the Soul," toured nationally, including at the Smithsonian and the Museum for African Art in New York City in March 1999. His other solo exhibitions were held at the Philadelphia African American Museum in 2003 and the New York State Museum in Albany in 2005. The Museum of Modern Art New York included Higgins' photography in its permanent collection. Higgins was a staff photographer beginning in 1975 for the New York Times. He was the recipient of multiple grants including Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Chester Higgins, Jr.
- Chester Higgins, Jr.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- OCLC
- 997167168
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Chester Higgins, Jr.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
043908
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2005 August 26.
Recorded New York, New York 2005 September 2.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Photojournalist.
- Added Author
Higgins, Chester, interviewee.
Wilson, Shawn, interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.