Harry Drinkwater photographs documenting Los Angeles art and Architecture

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Harry Drinkwater photographs documenting Los Angeles art and Architecture

1950-2010

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The collection of over 140 photographic prints and 1200 negatives represents a portion of the professional and personal output of Harry Drinkwater, a Venice, California-based Black photographer who documented Los Angeles's mid-century modern design movement as well as its wider artistic and social circles. Los Angeles-based Black artists, architects, and designers and their works feature prominently in the collection.

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Drinkwater, Harry, 1919-2014

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Harry W. Drinkwater was born in Bakersfield, California on March 28, 1919 and grew up in Yountville, in one of the area's only Black families. At around age 13 he left his family and headed south to San Diego, Los Angeles, and Venice, but returned to Yountville in 1938 to finish high school. He joined the service in 1942 and was stationed in Weymouth, England as part an all-Black unit of the communication corps. At the very end of his tour of duty a turn at the camera during the shooting of his ...