Chester Higgins Jr.
American photographer (born 1946) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chester Higgins Jr. (born November 1946) is an American photographer,[1][2][3][4] who was a staff photographer with The New York Times for more than four decades, and whose work has notably featured the life and culture of people of African descent.[5][6] His photographs have over the years appeared in magazines including Look, Life, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Ebony, Essence and Black Enterprise, and Higgins has also published several collections of his photography, among them Black Woman (1970), Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa (1994), Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging (2000), and Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey (2004).[7]
Chester Higgins Jr. | |
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Born | 1946 (age 77–78) Fairhope, Alabama, United States |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Tuskegee Institute |
Known for | Photography |
Awards | International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum |
Website | www |