Little pictures into big Placards and Posters!! That describes the story of an enterprising Detroit photographer whose camera work has stamped him as a favorite among national picture-snappers over the last sixty years.
Throughout his life, Frank Brown was well known as a news reporter and photographer for Americas leading black publications.
But chances are today, many people are coming to know Frank Brown not only as a great photographer, but an outstanding dance concert promoter whose photographs are now being widely sold as art, photographs, posters, postcards, placemats, etc. and for a variety of other commercial usages.
Frank Brown was born in 1923 at the dawn of the “New Negro Movement” (1920-1935). This era was immortalized by critic teacher Alain Locke, who described it as a “spiritual coming of age”. It was an important time in American history, which fostered a new black cultural identity. According to Locke, this “spiritual coming of age” allowed the black community to seize upon its “first chances for group expression and self-determination”.
