# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B8RmDYWgcfN
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16446653-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-02-07T17:59:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

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 American life in the North-East, here is a community of individuals existing alongside and beyond the narrative of struggle.
Scroll through to see a handful of images from the Teenie Harris archive, now under the guardianship of the Carnegie Museum of Art, or explore the collection at ‪gettyimages.com‬.
Nicknamed “One Shot” for his ability to get the picture first time, Harris can be seen with his camera in the final slide.
We’ll be profiling master photographers from the gettyarchive collections each Thursday throughout US Black History Month.
📷: Charles 'Teenie' Harris/Carnegie Museum of Art/Getty Images 
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