Ball games, weddings, picnics and dances. Marches, arrests, concerts and parades. From high drama to the extraordinary everyday, Pittsburgh photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris committed it all to posterity. Born in 1908, Harris captured the lives of his own community across five decades, producing 80,000 negatives that today form a unique social document of urban life in America. Spending most of his working life at the Pittsburgh Courier, the seminal African American newspaper, Harris left a legacy of slow, invested photography that is rare in the more restless photojournalism of his peers. Treading the same beat with the city as his backdrop, it is the people that form the sense of place, with Harris and his camera allocating the same historical space to the bus driver as to the prize fighter. In the context of WWII and the subsequent Civil Rights Movement, this great body of work restores the lived experience to the historic moment. A nuanced representation of 1930s –70s African Am...