Assembled over a period of eighty years at the Black Star photo agency in New York City, the photographs in the Black Star Collection describe the personalities, events and conflicts of the twentieth century. In 2005, the historical Black Star Collection was gifted to Ryerson University by an anonymous donor. In receiving this gift, the university has been entrusted with preserving these photographs and making them accessible to the public through exhibition and publication.

• Access to the collection     • Digitization and Cataloguing     • Black Star Oral Histories Project • A documentary initiative - personal anecdotes and memories • of Black Star photographers and associates are recorded.                       UPCOMING EVENTS     Coming soon     VIDEO     Steve Schapiro Dennis Brack Photographing an Era Black Star and the Civil Rights Movement   Charles Moore, Rights-Era Photographer, Dies at 79 Read more...   Commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall with Black Star exhibitions in Toronto, Ottawa and Berlin Read more...   Black Star Photographer Guest Speaker at Ryerson's Kodak Lecture Series Read more...

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