Thomas E. Askew
{{Short description|American photographer}}
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Thomas E. Askew (c. 1847 – July 12, 1914) was a photographer in Atlanta, Georgia. An African American, his work included portraits of himself, his family, and prominent African American community members.
His portraits and views were included in an album titled Types of American Negroes that was compiled by W. E. B. Du Bois for The Exhibit of American Negroes at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris.{{Cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/99472217/ |title=Thomas E. Askew, self-portrait |last=Askew |first=Thomas E. |date=1899 |website=Library of Congress |access-date=2018-08-24}} He died on July 12, 1914. The Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 destroyed his studio and equipment.{{Cite web |url=http://artsatl.com/thomas-askew/ |title=Correcting the canon: the underexposed Thomas Askew |last=Hall |first=Floyd |date=October 13, 2016 |website=ArtsATL |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016173010/https://artsatl.com/thomas-askew/ |archive-date=October 16, 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=2018-08-24}} He is buried in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery.
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Askew's 1899 photograph African American men and women posed for portrait on steps at Atlanta University, Georgia was featured in the television series Abbott Elementary, season three, episode "Willard R. Abbott," in which the image was used to celebrate historical Black public-school teachers.{{cite web |title=Repurposing and Remixing Archival Images |last=West |first=Jessamyn |date=March 14, 2024 |url=https://www.flickr.org/repurposing-and-remixing-archival-images/ |website=Flickr |access-date=March 8, 2025}}{{cite web |last=Askew |first=Thomas E. |date=1899 |title=African American men and women posed for portrait on steps at Atlanta University, Georgia |url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99472443/ |website=Library of Congress |access-date=March 8, 2025}}
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Further reading
- {{cite book|author=Mason, Herman |title=Hidden Treasures: African-american Photographers in Atlanta, 1870-1970 | location=Atlanta, GA | publisher=African-American Family History Association |year=1991 | oclc= 28327609 }}
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZE4zLSj-g6sC&q=Thomas+E.+Askew&pg=PA4|title=Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture|last=Smith|first=Shawn Michelle|date=2004|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0822333432|pages=4, 68–73|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZ9D90t7xcMC&q=Thomas+Askew+1914&pg=PA58|title=A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress|last1=Lewis|first1=David Levering|last2=Willis|first2=Deborah|date=2010|publisher=Zondervan|isbn=9780062043603|pages=58–59|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gbQHxb_P0QC&q=Thomas+Askew+1914&pg=RA3-PA84|title=Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century Five-volume Set|last1=Finkelman|first1=Paul|last2=Wintz|first2=Cary D.|date=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=9780195167795|pages=84|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&q=%22Thomas+e+Askew%22+1914&pg=PA56|title=The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art|last=Marter|first=Joan M.|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195335798|pages=56|language=en}}
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Category:African-American photographers
Category:Photographers from Georgia (U.S. state)