Ken Light
American Stories 1969-1995

Ken Light | American Stories:1969-1995 showcases three decades of work by photographer Ken Light, highlighting significant moments in American history from 1969 to 1995. Light’s images focus on social issues, human rights, and the lives of overlooked communities, providing a powerful look at the stories of this period.

The exhibition includes work from some of Light’s twelve published books, with selections from Report to the Shareholders, Course of the Empire; Midnight La Frontera; What’s Going On? 1969-1974; Valley of Shadows and Dreams; Coal Hollow, Delta Time; Texas Death Row; To The Promised Land; and With These Hands.

 

 

Ken Light
Light (@kenlight_photo_) has worked as a documentary photographer and filmmaker, focusing on social issues facing America for over fifty years. His work has been published in twelve monographs, including Report to the Shareholders, Course of the Empire, Midnight La Frontera, What’s Going On? 1969-1974, Valley of Shadows and Dreams, Coal Hollow, Delta Time, Texas Death Row, To The Promised Land and With These Hands. He is also the author of the text Witness in Our Time: Lives of Working Documentary Photographers in its second edition and Picturing Resistance. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowships and the Dorothea Lange Fellowship. His work has been in numerous magazines, newspapers and a variety of media (electronic & film) and presented in over 230 exhibitions worldwide including one-person shows at the International Center for Photography (NYC), Oakland Museum of California, S.E. Museum of Photography, Visual Studies  Workshop, Visa pour l’image Perpignan (France) and the San Jose Museum of Art. He was the first photographer to become a Laventhol Visiting Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is the Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at the U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

On View
October 10 - November 17, 2024 

 

HEADER IMAGE: DeWitt Clinton High School, Bronx, 1972 © Ken Light
INTERIOR IMAGES (L-R): Cambodian Invasion Riot, Columbus, Ohio, April 30, 1970 © Ken Light; West Oakland, California, 1974 © Ken Light