Coreen Simpson

Coreen Simpson (born February 18, 1942) is a noted African American photographer and jewelry designer, whose work has an African American theme. She was born and resides in New York City.

Simpson's photographic career began as a fashion photographer for the Village Voice and the Amsterdam News in the early 1980s, and covered many African American cultural and political events in the mid 1980s. She is also noted for her studies of Harlem nightlife. Her work's ability to present a wide variety of subjects with "depth of character and dignity" has been compared to that of Diane Arbus and Weegee.^[1]

External links

• Coreen Simpson official site

Selected exhibitions

• The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 2001
• Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, 2001, 1998
• Anacostia Museum/Smithsonian, Washington, DC, 2000
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY, 1999
• Musée de la Photographie, Brussels, Belgium, 1998
• International Center of Photography, New York, NY, 1998

Education

• Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY;
• Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Awards

• Light Work Residency, 1987
• Nueva Luz, Volume 1#2

References

Bibliography

• Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Black Women Photographers, Writers & Readers, 1993
• "Coreen Simpson", Black Women in America, MacMillan, 1999

Footnotes

1. ^ Black Women in America, p.250.

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