Sweet Breath of Life :: Kamoinge Book

The Sweet Breath of Life :: A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family

Frank Stewart: Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Frank Stewart grew up in Memphis and Chicago. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied photography at the Cooper Union, receiving a B.F.A. in 1975. He was vice president of Kamoinge 1997-2003. He is presently senior staff photographer for Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Ntozake Shange: poet, novelist, playwright and performer, wrote the Broadway-produced and Obie Award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf. She has also written numerous works of fiction, including Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo, Betsy Brown, and Liliane.

Clockwise from top left: Anthony Barboza, June DeLairre Truesdale, Gerald Cyrus, Ming Smith, Adger W. Cowans, Toni Parks, Frank Stewart, Beuford Smith and Herb Robinson. Members not included in photograph who are included in the book are: Albert Fennar, Collette Fournier, James Francis, Herbert Randall, Eli Reed and Budd Williams. Photograph by Barboza Studio.

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