Consuelo Kanaga: An American Photographer

Consuelo Kanaga turned her lens on subjects typically marginalized by white art photographers of her time, notably African Americans, Native Americans, the urban and rural poor. Having begun as a journalist and news photographer, her gaze was documentary, but not barren of personal engagement. Colleague and friend of the better-known Imogen Cunningham and Dorothea Lange, Kanaga was unfortunately undervalued while she lived.