Black-and-white photograph of a group of people, mostly white and one Black woman and young Black girl, standing behind a barricade
Ernest Cole (South African, 1940–1990), Midtown, c. 1970–1972, Digital gelatin silver print, © Ernest Cole. All rights reserved. Courtesy of the Ernest Cole Family Trust

The True America: Photographs by Ernest Cole

This exhibition is the first to present South African photographer Ernest Cole’s images of Black lives in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  

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The True America: Photographs by Ernest Cole

This exhibition is the first to present South African photographer Ernest Cole’s images of Black lives in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  

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Ernest Cole (South African, 1940–1990), Midtown, c. 1970–1972, Digital gelatin silver print, © Ernest Cole. All rights reserved. Courtesy of the Ernest Cole Family Trust