Gordon Parks, James Van Der Zee and now Laura Fitzpatrick. While you might be familiar with those first two famous, Black photographers, Fitzpatrick’s collection is just being discovered by the public and is going to be housed in the Smithsonian’s new African American Museum. The interesting thing about Fitzpatrick though is that she took her portraits in the 1930s and 40’s, starting when she was just 11-years-old. Her portfolio includes 500 photos from 1938-1948 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn right at the height of the Black migration from the south to the north. Fitzpatrick’s own family came from Alabama when she was 10. Her son, Dan Evans told CNN: “She took a lot of portraits of individuals and portraits of families. But then sometimes she would just catch people on the street. She lived in a tenement building in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, on a street called Broadway, and they had a low roof. And she turned the rooftop into a photo studio.… My mother took it as a personal mission to become the historian for this time period because no one else had a camera.” Fitzpatrick took the photos throughout her life but never as many she did during that 10 year period. Check out a few of them on the following pages.[Pics] 11-Year-Old Laura Fitzpatrick Kept a Detailed Photo Diary of Her Life in 1938 ... https://t.co/HomEojb0jY pic.twitter.com/bjkdHLGRWJ
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Le Brooklyn des années trentes de Laura Fitzpatrick https://t.co/CXA6zqCuN1 pic.twitter.com/5f3TfbZDfb
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Laura Fitzpatrick pic.twitter.com/ZdY60dTD3q
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