News Photographer

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A linocut depicting a figure with a camera pointed at them. The print appears as a circular design in black ink. The figure is shown in profile on the left side, their hand raised to hold a news camera pointed at them. The scene is framed by concentric rings with the outer ring appearing as a thick black band with a repeating geometric design. Along the bottom edge of the outer band is the title [News Photographer] written in pencil along with [a/p] and the artist’s signature [James L Wells].

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