Thomas E. Askew
Thomas E. Askew (c. 1847 – July 12, 1914) was a photographer in Atlanta, Georgia. An African American, his work included portraits of himself, his family, and prominent African American community members.
His portraits and views were included in an album titled Types of American Negroes that was compiled by W. E. B. Du Bois for The Exhibit of American Negroes at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris.[1]
He died on July 12, 1914. The Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 destroyed his studio and equipment.[2] He is buried in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Askew, Thomas E. (1899). "Thomas E. Askew, self-portrait". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
- ^ a b Hall, Floyd (October 13, 2016). "Correcting the canon: the underexposed Thomas Askew". ArtsATL. Archived from the original on October 16, 2016. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
Further reading
[edit]- Mason, Herman (1991). Hidden Treasures: African-american Photographers in Atlanta, 1870-1970. Atlanta, GA: African-American Family History Association. OCLC 28327609.
- Smith, Shawn Michelle (2004). Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture. Duke University Press. pp. 4, 68–73. ISBN 978-0822333432.
- Lewis, David Levering; Willis, Deborah (2010). A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress. Zondervan. pp. 58–59. ISBN 9780062043603.
- Finkelman, Paul; Wintz, Cary D. (2009). Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century Five-volume Set. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 84. ISBN 9780195167795.
- Marter, Joan M. (2011). The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. Oxford University Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780195335798.
