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D. MICHAEL CHEERS (1953- ) Alice W. Smith makes feeding the neighborhood kittens a daily ritual, Tchula, Mississippi, from Songs of My People: African Americans, A Self-Portrait. Silver print, the image measuring 13⅜x9 inches (34x22.9 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Cheers' signature and numeric notations in pencil on verso. 1990
Launched in 1990, Songs of My People was a book, exhibition, and project created and edited by Eric Easter, Dudley M. Brooks, and D. Michael Cheers. It included the work of fifty African American photographers who were commissioned beginning in 1990 to record African American life in order to create a balanced and moving selection of images of everyday life and culture. About 190,000 photographs were created. The exhibition opened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and traveled in a variety of iterations from 1992-1994. The 1992 book included an introduction by Gordon Parks and essays by Sylvester Monroe, Paula Giddings, Nelson George, and Joyce Ladner. This image is reproduced on page 20 of that catalogue.
