Shawn W. Walker “Lost and Found”

Bruce Silverstein (529 W 20th St.)

[Image: Shawn W. Walker "East Harlem" Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1960s]

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Lost and Found features the work of one of the founding members of the Kamoinge Workshop, Shawn W. Walker.

Lost and Found is an exhibition of rediscovered early exhibition prints created in the first decade of the Walker’s sixty-year career, depicting and immortalizing members of the artist’s community who were all too often overlooked and unseen, serving as a window into the origins of the artist’s creative practice. Having rested dormant, safely stored, and forgotten in The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture archives for over a half-century and now reunited with the artist, many of the photographs exhibited in Lost and Found are being shown in public for the very first time. They are some of the few early prints still in the artist’s possession after his archive of over 100,000 images was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2019 in what would become the first photography archive of a black artist procured by the institution.