Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers

Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers. The journey : the next 100 years (Project).

Descriptive Inventory for the Collection at the Chicago History Museum, Research Center

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Main entry: Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers

Title: The journey : the next 100 years [graphic]

Inclusive dates: 2000-2005 (bulk 2000)

Size: ca. 200 photograph prints : b&w ; 16 x 20 in.

Accession #: 2006.0090 through 2006.0159, 2007.0027

Call number: 2006.0090+ PPL

Restriction: Credit photographer. Photographer retains copyright under a non-exclusive license.

This descriptive inventory contains:

Brief history,

Description of the collection,

Provenance statement,

List of online catalog headings,

Storage designation,

Container list of photographer/accession numbers.

Brief history:

Founded in 1999 by photojournalists, artists, and commercial photographers, Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers (CAAAP) is committed to fostering excellence among African American professional and non-professional photographers in the Chicagoland area. Its aim is to promote awareness of the African American community through photo-documentation projects, such as The Journey, educational programming, exhibitions, publications, and lectures. CAAAP conceived of The Journey in an effort to reverse what it saw as consistently negative portrayal of the African American community in the news media.

Description of the collection:

Photographs (regular and digital prints) by more than 70 members of the Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers (CAAAP), produced as part of a photo-documentary project entitled: The Journey: The Next 100 Years, initiated in 2000 by CAAAP. This collaborative project brought together local photographers to create a record of the African American community in Chicago at the turn of the 21st century. The collection depicts themes: The Arts, Challenges, Brothers, Sisters, the Next Generation, Faith, Family, and the Streets.

Photographers are Leslie Adkins, El Adnan, Funsho Akerele-Ale, Paul Batchelor, Dawoud Bey, Bob Black, Geoffrey A. Black, Anita Blanchard, Terrence Blount, Michael J. Bracey, Brock, Martha Brock, Milbert O. Brown, Jr., Pierre Burnaugh, Louis Byrd III, Ovie Carter, Erick Clark, Brock Collins, Donnell Collins, Bob Crooms, Antonio Dickey, Leonard Evans, Stephanie Graham, Christopher Griffin, Doug Griswold, Keith Hale, James Harvey, Marvin Hill, James Holley, Rudy Hudson, Brian Jackson, Brent Jones, Marian Jones, Javet M. Kimball, Lee Landry, Owen Lawson III, and Charisse Linder.

Photographers (continued) are Barry Mayo, Raymond Mays, Sheldon McCullough, Cecil McDonald, Jr., Debra Meeks, Walter Mitchell, Fred Morse, James Morris, Arminita Muhammad, Kenneth Muhammad, Philemon Najieb, Bill Neal, Scott Poland, Eseti Ray, Claudette Richards-Morris, Bill Scott, Donnie Seals, Jr., Bobby Sengstacke, Janet M. Sheard, Howard Simmons, Kenneth Simmons, Perry Slade, John E. Smith, Jr., Robert Thorton, David Trotman-Wilkins, Nassoma Vernon, Marcia Wade, James Watkins, John Watkins, Eric Werner, Toya Werner-Martin, John H. White, Israel Wright, Daaiyah Ziyad.

Most images shown in the book: The Journey: The Next 100 Years, compiled in cooperation with CAAAP and Chicago Historical Society, and published by Roosevelt University in 2006.

Roosevelt University exhibited these works in 2006 at its Gage Gallery. Selected photographs from The Journey were exhibited at numerous local venues, including The Museum of Contemporary Art, the South Side Community Art Center, The Beverly Art Center, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Roosevelt University.

Provenance statement:

Gift of the individual photographers listed above (under non-exclusive license) as arranged by The Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers (2006.0090 through 2006.0159, 2007.0027).

Credit photographer. Photographer retains copyright under a non-exclusive license.

List of online catalog headings:

The following headings for this collection were placed in the online catalog:

Main entry: Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers.

Subjects:

Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers. The journey (Project)

African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--2000-2006.

African American artists--Illinois--Chicago--2000-2006.

African American children--Illinois--Chicago--2000-2006.

African American families--Illinois--Chicago--2000-2006.

African American musicians--Illinois--Chicago--2000-2006.

African American photographers--Illinois--Chicago--2000-2006.

Religious services--Illinois--Chicago--2000-2006.

Community life--Illinois--Chicago--21st century.

Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--21st century.

Form/genre:

Silver gelatin prints.

Digital prints.

Added entries:

Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers. The journey (Project)

United States--Illinois--Cook County--Chicago.

Storage designation:

Call number: 2006.0090+ PPL

(Accessions 2006.0090 through 2006.0159 and 2007.0027 are boxed together).

Processed by: Leigh Moran, 2006-2007.

Container list of photographer/accession numbers:

Photographs are boxed in order by photographer.

Adkins, Leslie 2006.0090.1.1-2

Adnan, El 2006.0091.1.1

Akerele-Ale, Funsho 2006.0092.1.1

Batchelor, Paul 2006.0093.1.1

Bey, Dawoud 2007.0027.1

Black, Bob 2006.0094.1.1-23

Black, Geoffrey A. 2006.0095.1.1-14

Blanchard, Anita 2006.0096.1.1

Blount, Terrence 2006.0097.1.1-3

Bracey, Michael J. 2006.0098.1.1-22

Brock, Martha 2006.0099.1.1-4

Brown, Milbert O., Jr. 2006.0100.1.1-31

Burnaugh, Pierre 2006.0101.1.1

Byrd, Louis, III 2006.0102.1.1-4

Carter, Ovie 2006.0103.1.1.-2

Clark, Erick 2006.0104.1.1

Collins, Brook 2006.0105.1.1-6

Collins, Donnell 2006.0106.1.1

Crooms, Bob 2006.0107.1.1

Dickey, Antonio 2006.0108.1.1

Evans, Leonard 2006.0109.1.1-2

Graham, Stephanie 2006.0110.1.1

Griffin, Christopher 2006.0111.1.1-6

Griswold, Doug 2006.0112.1.1

Hale, Keith 2006.0113.1.1

Harvey, James 2006.0114.1.1-2

Hill, Marvin 2006.0115.1.1

Holley, James 2006.0116.1.1-2

Hudson, Rudy 2006.0117.1.1

Jackson, Brian 2006.0118.1.1-4

Jones, Brent 2006.0120.1.1-2

Jones, Marian 2006.0121.1.1

Kimball, Javet M. 2006.0122.1.1-5

Landry, Lee 2006.0123.1.1-3

Lawson, Owen, III 2006.0124.1.1-2

Linder, Charisse 2006.0125.1.1

Mayo, Barry 2006.0126.1.1-2

Mays, Raymond 2006.0127.1.1

McCullough, Sheldon 2006.0128.1.1

McDonald, Cecil, Jr. 2006.0129.1.1

Meeks, Debra 2006.0130.1.1-2

Mitchell, Walter 2006.0131.1.1

Morse, Fred 2006.0132.1.1

Morris, James 2006.0133.1.1-10

Muhammad, Arminita 2006.0134.1.1

Muhammad, Kenneth 2006.0135.1.1-12

Najieb, Philemon 2006.0136.1.1

Neal, Bill 2006.0137.1.1

Poland, Scott 2006.0138.1.1

Ray, Eseti 2006.0139.1.1-2

Richards-Morris, Claudette 2006.0140.1.1

Scott, Bill 2006.0141.1.1-3

Seals, Donnie, Jr. 2006.0142.1.1-2

Sengstacke, Bobby 2006.0143.1.1-3

Sheard, Janet M. 2006.0144.1.1-2

Simmons, Howard 2006.0145.1.1-2

Simmons, Kenneth 2006.0146.1.1

Slade, Perry 2006.0147.1-3

Smith, John E., Jr. 2006.0148.1.1

Thorton, Robert 2006.0149.1.1-2

Trotman-Wilkins, David 2006.0150.1.1-3

Vernon, Nassoma 2006.0151.1.1

Wade, Marcia 2006.0152.1.1

Watkins, James 2006.0153.1.1

Watkins, John 2006.0154.1.1

Werner, Eric 2006.0155.1.1-2

Werner-Martin, Toya 2006.0156.1.1-2

White, John H. 2006.0157.1.1-2

Wright, Israel 2006.0158.1.1

Ziyad, Daaiyah 2006.0159.1.1