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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) BAYNES, JAMES “JIMMY.”
Jimmy Baynes archive.
Over 100 photographs, mostly 8 x 10 color and black and white, various subjects.
Cleveland, circa 1953-1970’s
[600/800]
Jimmy Baynes learned to play the piano from his mother and picked up the harmonica as well
as photography on his own. He worked for the railway for most of his adult life, supplementing
his income by photographing events in the African American community where he lived. His
work is in the Rock and Roll Museum, the LaMott Robinson Museum and North East Ohio
Popular Music Archives. He had his first formal gallery exhibition just before his died in
2010.
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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) CHEERS, MICHAEL.
Songs of My People.
Thirteen
11 x 14, and 5 8 x 10 gelatin silver prints * a copy of Songs of My People, the book they
are collected in.
Little Brown, 1992, photographs, various dates.
SHOULD BE SEEN
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[1,500/2,500]
Michale Cheers is head of the Photojournalism department at San Jose State University. The
book, Songs of My People was a group effort by three photographers: Michael Cheers, Eric
Easter and Dudley M Brooks. The photography covers a great deal ground, and is, in the words
of the dust jacket blurb, an historic photo documentary of the world of African Americans.
Gordon Parks in his introduction describes the effort as “an inward look. The heart, not the
eye seems to have determined the content of the photographs. What their eyes saw was one
thing, what their hearts perceived was yet another.”
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