New home for Wayne F. Miller’s Black Life photographic work
Wayne F. Miller’s seminal photographic work exploring Chicago’s South Side community in 1946-1948 has found a permanent home. The National Museum of African American History and Culture acquired the work in 2023, making the institution the primary steward of this material. Read more...
Wayne F. Miller Photography Web Store Now Open!
The Wayne F. Miller estate is releasing to the market 165 archival inkjet prints from the 2008/2009 Southeast Museum of Photography survey exhibition and book “Wayne F. Miller Photographs 1942-1958”. These prints were created under the supervision of Wayne Miller before his passing in 2013, and include many of Wayne’s most loved images from Chicago’s South Side and World War Two. Also included are images from various post-war editorial projects, including Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (1946), California Cotton Pickers (1950), The Mexican Priest (1952), and Alameda County Juvenile Home (1953). Visit the store here!
Magnum Photos Square Print Sale
The Magnum Square Print Sale is a bi-annual, week-long sale of 6x6" prints, signed by Magnum photographers and estates, as well as any invited guests or partner organizations. Over 70 photographs are selected from the Magnum archive for each sale, and outside of the week-long sale window, they will never be made available in this format again.
The sale has been running since 2014, presenting exclusive, signed prints to art lovers and photography fans from around the world.
National Gallery of Art Acquisition
The National Gallery of Art has been given 44 gelatin silver prints by the esteemed documentary photographer Wayne Miller (1918–2013). Given on behalf of his family and the artist’s estate, the group of photographs comprise a rich variety of themes central to his career. These are the first works by the artist to enter the collection and they deepen our holdings of documentary photography from the 1940s with compelling pictures that convey the horrific experience of war as well as the fullness of Black life in post-war Chicago.
Wayne F. Miller & Marvin E. Newman at Keith de Lellis
Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York City - September 11 through November 9, 2019
Keith de Lellis Gallery presents an exhibition of two American documentary photographers: Wayne Miller and Marvin E. Newman. In the early days of their careers, both men endeavored to document Chicago’s black communities in the wakes of the Great Migration and World War II. Miller received two consecutive Guggenheim fellowships (1946–1948) to photograph his series “The Way of Life of the Northern Negro,” which would later be published as a book: Chicago’s South Side. Newman’s series was completed while he pursued a master’s degree in photography at Chicago’s Institute of Design.