Consuelo Kanaga

An American Photographer 

Kanaga (1894-1978), turned her lens on subjects typically marginalized by white art photographers of her time, notably African Americans, Native Americans, the urban and rural poor. Having begun as a journalist and news photographer, her gaze was documentary, but not barren of personal engagement. Colleague and friend of the better-known Imogen Cunningham and Dorothea Lange, Kanaga was unfortunately undervalued while she lived. With 120 b&w photographs from a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, plus 60 smaller figures, many heretofore unseen and unpublished. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.