The Big Legacy Of Charles “Tennie” Harris, Photographer—LISTEN–
Charles “Teenie” Harris/Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg
Little boy boxer, seated in boxing ring, possibly in Kay Boys’ Club, circa 1945
Charles “Teenie” Harris didn’t need to wander far during his life as a photographer. His hometown of Pittsburgh, Penn., supplied enough images to sustain a career. For more than four decades, Harris was one of the principal photographers for thePittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s pre-eminent black newspapers.
“[Teenie] has been known and loved in Pittsburgh ever since the 1930s, but his reputation outside the city is just beginning to spread,” says Lulu Lippincott, curator of a new exhibition of Teenie Harris’s photos at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Jerry Roberts
