Draper, Louis H. Louis H. Draper: Selected Photographs.

Edited by Margaret O'Reilly with essays by Gary D. Saretzky and Iris Schmiesser. Booksmart Studio & Mercer County Community College, 2015. ISBN-978-1-939026-00-2. Monograph on the esteemed Black photographer Louis H.  Draper (1935-2002), a co-founder of the Kamoinge Group established in the 1960s to document Harlem and later the coordinator of the photography program at Mercer County Community College, NJ.] Cloth bound with photo mounted on cover, plus dust jacket. Issued in a limited edition of 1,500. 124 pages with numerous full page black-and-white illustrations, with a selection of Draper's photographs of the city, portraits, and abstractions. Includes chronology and other biographical information in appendices. New in original shrink wrap.  Also available signed by Saretzky, for which the shrink wrap will be opened before shipping.

Notes: Photographer and co-founder of the Kamoinge group of Black photographers in New York in the early 1960s, Lou Draper was born in Richmond, Virginia, on September 24, 1935. He attended Virginia State College, then studied photography in New York with Harold Feinstein and W. Eugene Smith, for whom he became an assistant. Draper first came to national attention in the exhibition, Photography at Mid-Century (1959), at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. He was included in the first Black Photographers Annual in 1973 and in the 1975 Kamoinge exhibit at the International Center for Photography.  In 2021, Draper was featured in the exhibit, “Working Together: The Photographs of the Kamoinge Workshop” at the Whitney Museum of American Art that originated at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, which makes Draper’s archives available online and published an impressive exhibit catalog.  From 1982 until his death. Draper taught photography and coordinated the photography curriculum at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey.  In the catalog for his show at Rider University in 1990, Draper stated,  "Expressing yourself is really a by-product of expressing your subject. And in expressing your subject there is a coming together of those experiences that shape you and cause you to select a particular kind of material with which to work. I am concerned primarily with photography's evocative and lingering after-presence -- that undefined questioning and reexamination of my environment.” Museums that hold Draper's photographs include the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, George Eastman Museum, Whitney Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, National Museum of African American History and Culture, et al. For more information on Draper, see http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/glossed-over-no-more-louis-drapers-archive ].