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Chester Higgins Jr. (born November 1946) is an American photographer.〔Suzanne Muchnik, ("Traveling the Globe to Document the Spirit of a People" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', January 6, 1996.〕〔(Chester Higgins Jr biography ), BrotherMen, PBS.〕〔(Tadias.com )〕〔(Present Magazine )〕 ==Life and work== Higgins was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and grew up in New Brockton, Alabama.〔(Biography ) at Chester Higgins Jr website.〕 He attended Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), where he was mentored by the school's official photographer, P. H. Polk, and graduated in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in business management.〔 Higgins has worked as a ''New York Times'' photographer since 1975 and has exhibited in museums throughout the world.〔 Higgins is the author of the photo collections ''Black Woman, Drums of Life'', ''Some Time Ago: A Historical Portrait of Black America (1850–1950)'', ''Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa'', ''Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging'', and his memoir ''Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer's Journey''. His most recent book is ''Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile''. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has been included in numerous book collections and appeared in publications such as ''Newsweek'', ''Fortune'', ''Look'', ''Essence'' and ''Life''. Currently he is researching and photographing monuments and other antiquity sites along the River Nile from the 6,000-foot high mountains of Kush (modern-day Ethiopia) through Nubia (Sudan) down to the ancient land of Kemet (Egypt). In this latest project, entitled ''Before Genesis'', Higgins narrates the story of the African beginnings of spirituality, antecedents of the Biblical world. He is represented by the Peter Fetterman Gallery of Santa Monica, California.〔("Chester Higgins Jr." ) at Peter Fetterman Gallery.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chester Higgins, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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