Portfolio of Photographs
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Girl chasing a butterfly. Macon County, Alabama, 1968.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Night prayer at the window of my great-aunt Shugg Lampley. New Brockton, Alabama, 1968.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Civil Rights Rally. Montgomery, Alabama, 1968.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Youngster rides father’s shoulder through the trees. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1970.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Patricia Dunham, a SCLC worker. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1968.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Spencer Jones in prayer at Springfield Baptist Church. New Brockton, Alabama, 1968.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Swamps of Coffee County, 2000.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Coed love. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1969.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Dr. Martin Luther King on a church fan. Springfield Baptist Church, New Brockton, Alabama, 1968.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Shy girl. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1968.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Coach gives advice to catcher. Tuskegee, Alabama, 1968.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Pentecostal Minister. New Brockton, Alabama, 1968.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Father swings his son in the sunset at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1970.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Farmer on store porch. Shorter, Alabama, 1972.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Boy at church window. Macon County, Alabama, 1968.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Birds Crossing. Brundidge, Alabama, 1969.
Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Chester Higgins Jr., a staff photographer of the New York Times since 1975, is author of such books as The Black Woman (with Harold McDougall), Some Time Ago: A Historical Portrait of Black Americans, 1850–1950 (with Orde Coombs), Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa, Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging, and Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey. His photography has been exhibited in a variety of venues in such cities as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dakar, Accra, Paris, Berlin, Montevideo, Caracas, Cologne, Stockholm, Vienna, and many others throughout the world. Higgins was born in Alabama and graduated from Tuskegee University. He lives in New York.
