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Calvin Hicks

1941–2012

United States

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Calvin Robert Hicks (1941–2012) was an African American photographer and gallerist, best known for founding The Black Photographers of California and its associated exhibition space, the Black Gallery, in Los Angeles, as well as for his classical nude portraiture from the 1970s.

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