Texas African American Photography Archive

founded by Alan Govenar and Kaleta Doolin

exhibitions / interactive

About

“The Texas African American Photography Archive is as important to scholars as it is to the community at large because it addresses political and social movements and the cultural life in Texas which includes portraiture, photojournalism, documentary, and art photography.”
​~Deborah Willis, Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University

The Texas African American Photography (TAAP) Archive was founded in 1995 by Alan Govenar and Kaleta Doolin. TAAP Archive provides a broad overview of African American photography in the urban and rural areas of Texas, spanning the period from the 1870s to the present and representing a variety of processes and makers. The Archive is unique in its comprehensiveness, and consists of over 60,000 photographic negatives and prints and more than 20 oral histories collected from African American photographers. Most of the items in the Archive have been donated by the photographers and their families, while others have been acquired from private collections.

Photographers include:
A.B. Bell
Charles W. Blair
Marion Butts
Morris Crawford
Dallas Post-Tribune
Rodney Evans
Elnora W. Frazier
Theresa Sidle Hardeman
Earlie Hudnall, Jr.
Curtis Humphrey
Alonzo W. Jordan
Benny Joseph
George Keaton
Calvin Littlejohn
Logwood Family
Louise O. Martin
Roy Leandrew Patton, Jr.
Herbert Provost
Eugene Roquemore
Carl Sidle
James C. Thibodeaux
Josie Washington
Robert Whitby
S. Juanita Williams

General Collection
Oral History Collection

In 2014, the Texas African American Photography Archive was gifted to the International Center of Photography.

http://www.icp.org/browse/archive/collections/documentary-arts-selections