Charles "Teenie" Harris:
Rhapsody in Black and White

March 24–April 9, 2008
Porch and University Galleries

Artist’s Talk: Thursday, March 27, 7 p.m.
A Conversation with Ron K. Brown
CDS Auditorium

Charles “Teenie” Harris was a chronicler of the African American community in Pittsburgh for more than forty years. As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the pre-eminent black newsweeklies in America, Teenie Harris traveled the alleys, workplaces, nightclubs, and ballparks of his native city with a Speed Graphic black-and-white camera in hand.

His images document Pittsburgh and its African American history from 1931 through 1975. He was nicknamed “One Shot” by Mayor David L. Lawrence because of his habit of snapping only one shot of him when other photographers would shoot many.

Charles “Teenie” Harris: Rhapsody in Black and White is presented in conversation with Ron K. Brown/Evidence Dance Company’s One Shot on March 28, 8 p.m., Page Auditorium, West Campus, Duke University—part of Statements of Fact: Documentary in Performance, a series offered by Duke Performances.




Mary Louise Harris wearing a long tweed suit with polka dot blouse posed next to car on Mulford Street, Homewood, c. 1930–39. Photograph by Charles "Teenie" Harris.

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Partial view of the Lyndhurst Gallery, one of four exhibition spaces at CDS. Photograph by Christoper Sims.


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