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Roland L. Freeman (born July 27, 1936) is a photographer and award-winning documenter of Southern folk culture and African-American quilters. He is the president of The Group for Cultural Documentation based in Washington, D.C. ==Early life== Roland Freeman was born in Baltimore, Maryland. As a youth, his future life’s work was inspired when he discovered the Depression-era photography of Gordon Parks and Roy DeCarava, which focused on raising the social consciousness, as well as the work of Farm Security Administration photographers. When Freeman was 14, he met the author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, who would also be a great influence on his subsequent career. Freeman served in the US Air Force from 1954 to 1958.〔St. James Guide to Black Artists, Roland’s profile, p. 201.〕 He began taking photographs in the DC area in 1963, inspired by the March on Washington.〔(National Endowment for the Arts: National Heritage Fellowships. )〕 In 1968, he not only participated in but also documented the Poor People's Campaign and the Mule Train〔(Photographer Roland Freeman is keynote speaker April 9. ) Arkansas State University, retrieved April 7, 2010.〕 trip from Marks, Mississippi, to the nation's capital.〔(National Endowment for the Arts: National Heritage Fellowships. )〕 He worked as a stringer for ''Time'' and Magnum Photos, including coverage as a White House photographer. In 1997, Freeman was named the Eudora Welty Visiting Professor of Southern Studies at Millsaps College (Jackson, MS). 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「Roland Freeman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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