#Chester Higgins

[federer7]

Three Models, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, 1972

Photo: Chester Higgins

#Chester Higgins #models #Fort Greene Park #brooklyn #1972

[lascitasdelashoras]

Chester Higgins Jr. - Rainy Times Square, Manhattan, 1969

#chester higgins #times square #manhattan #new york

[joeinct]

Five Points, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, Photo by Chester Higgins, 1972

#chester higgins

[yama-bato]

Chester Higgins, The Indelible Spirit — Blind Magazine

#Chester Higgins

[casadabiqueira]

The morning commute on the No. 7 line in Queens

Chester Higgins Jr. [NYT], 1997 NYT

#colour #chester higgins

[delilaholson]

Chester Higgins, Ann Young in VW Bug, Manhattan, 1975, Gelatin Silver Print, 1975

#Chester Higgins #Delilah Olson

[cosmicanger]

Chester Higgins

#Chester Higgins #black art #style #b #a #fashion

[tumbling-dyce]

Chester Higgins,  Kemet, The 4,700 year-old Bent Pyramid of King Snefru, Dynasty 4. Dashur, Egypt, 2010 (© Chester Higgins)

#chester higgins #egypt #landscape #pyramid #kemet #dashur #monument #ancient monument

[henk-heijmans]

Out the back window, Ghana, 1975 - by Chester Higgins Jr. (1946), American

#Chester Higgins Jr. #Ghana #woman #back window

[garadinervi]

Nikki Giovanni, Re:Creation, Broadside Press, Detroit, MI, 1970 [Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY]. Photocover by Chester Higgins, Jr.; Designed by Ray Prather, Jr.

#graphic design #art #poetry #photocollage #book #cover #book cover #back cover #nikki giovanni #chester higgins jr. #ray prather jr. #broadside press #cooper hewitt #smithsonian design museum #1970s

[arinewman7]

Maya Angelou

Photography by Chester Higgins, Jr

Gelatin Silver Print, 1969, printed 2020

#Chester Higgins Jr #art #artist #photography #Maya Angelou #poetry #poet #beautiful #Gelatin Silver Print #1969 printed 2020 #Photography by Chester Higgins Jr

[federer7]

Quida, Manhattan, NYC, 1984

Photo: Chester Higgins

#Chester Higgins #Quida #manhattan #new york #new york city #1984

[photoarchive]

Chester Higgins, Souleymane Keita, Brooklyn, 1985

[joeinct]

Aretha Franklin at the Apollo, Harlem, New York, Photo by Chester Higgins, 1971

#chester higgins #aretha franklin #apollo theater

[kafkasapartment]

Rainy Times Square, Manhattan, 1969. Chester Higgins, Jr. Gelatin silver print.

#Black and White #photography #rain #times square #new york #photographie #foto #fotografia #fotografie #umbrella #night #lights #neon

[brooklynmuseum]

How would you describe your own style? 

As part of #AfricaFashion, In Our Own Style presents personal photography as a window into past and present styles and fashion attitudes. These self-submitted photographs illuminate an intergenerational understanding of identity and family, which spans the African continent and diaspora.

View more photographs in Africa Fashion, loaned to the Brooklyn Museum by individuals with ties to Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Togo, and Uganda. 

Thank you to all who submitted! Continue to share your photos and videos from your family’s archive with #AfricaFashionBkM.

📷 Joshua Woods, Diane G. Degry, Chester Higgins, Marame Gueye, Liz Kimbulu, Ama Kateena, David Palacios, J.J. Thornberry and April Levack, Addoley Dzegede, Zamarianne Bradley, Jamel Shabazz, Jennifer Nnamani, Hannah Traore

#Brookyln #Museum #BrookylnMuseum #art #NYC #NewYorkCity #summer