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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Chester Higgins, Jr.
Chester Higgins, Jr.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Higgins, Chester, interviewee.
Wilson, Shawn, interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2005 August 26.
Recorded New York, New York 2005 September 2.
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| 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.
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