African-American families have been descending on the San Diego History Center for the last few months, leafing through mid-20th-century photographs of their ancestors and relatives. The History Center owns about 30,000 negatives and prints by Norman Baynard, a self-trained African-American photographer, and is now trying to identify his clients. Mr. Baynard ran a photo studio [...]

by THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS The first thing that came to mind when I heard about the Jasper, Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordan, on view at the ICP,  was the film “Two Towns of Jasper,” a documentary about the 1998 racially-motivated murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas which I saw at Sundance [...]