Beuford Smith
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Beuford Smith | |
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| Born | April 12, 1936 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Died | June 7, 2025 (aged 89) Brooklyn |
| Known for | photography |
Beuford Smith (1936–2025) was an American photographer.
Smith was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1] Sources differ on his birth year. the African American Registry[2] and the New York Times[1] list his birthday as April 12, 1936. Several sources list his birth year as 1941.[3][4][5]
Smith was a member of the Kamoinge Workshop. He was also a founding editor of the Black Photographers Annual.[6]
In 2020 his work was included in the traveling exhibition Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop.[1] His work was included in the 2025 exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 at the National Gallery of Art. [7] In 2026 the Keith de Lellis Gallery held a retrospective entitled Beuford Smith : A Retrospective of Community, Witness, and History.[8]
Smith's photographs are in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum,[4] the Museum of Modern Art,[9]the National Gallery of Art,[10] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[3]
