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Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985

Man holds picketing sign that says 'WE ARE TIRED OF WAITING' next to car covered with protest stickers

Protest Car, Los Angeles 1962; printed 2024, Harry Adams. Inkjet print. Harry Adams Archive, Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at California State University, Northridge. © Harry Adams. All rights reserved and protected.

Opening February 24, 2026 at the Getty Center, Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 features African American and Afro-Atlantic diaspora artists whose work celebrated Black culture and advanced the struggle for civil rights.

Several images in the exhibition are on loan from the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center/University Library photographic archive. They include photographs made by Roland Charles, Willie Middlebrook Jr., Harry Adams, Howard Moorehead, and Calvin Hicks.

Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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Last Updated: 02/02/2026