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American photographer and painter

Adger Cowans is an American fine arts photographer and abstract painter.^[1]

Life and work

Cowans was born in Columbus, Ohio, on September 19, 1936.^[2][3] He obtained a Bachelor of Art degree in photography from Ohio University in 1958 and also an alumnus of School of Motion Picture Arts and School of Visual Arts in New York.^[4][5] While serving in the United States Navy, he worked as a photographer before moving to New York, where he later worked at Life magazine with photographer Gordon Parks and fashion photographer Henry Clarke.^[6] While in New York, he joined the Kamoinge Workshop, an artists collective dedicated to showing the African Diaspora though photography, soon after it was established in 1963.

He moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut after leaving New York.^[7]

In 2001, he was awarded the Lorenzo il Magnifico alla Carriera in recognition of his Disti The Heartbeat of Our Being, in Black and White - The New York ... DYWA