Herb Robinson

Herb Robinson
Born1944 (age 81–82)
Kingston, Jamaica
Known forphotography
Websiteherbrobinsonphotography.com

Herb Robinson (born 1944) is a Jamaican-born American photographer.

Robinson was born in 1944 in Kingston, Jamaica. He moved to New York as a child. He studied at City College of New York and the Fashion Institute of Technology.[1] He was a member of the Kamoinge Workshop.[2]

In 2022 Robinson's work was included in the exhibition Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop organized by the organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.[3][4] Robinson's work was included in the 2025 exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 at the National Gallery of Art.[1]

His work is the collections of Museum of Modern Art,[5] the National Gallery of Art,[6] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Brookman, Philip; Willis, Deborah (2025). Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985. New Haven London: Yale University Press. p. 261. ISBN 9780300283501.
  2. ^ "Cincinnati Art Museum: Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop". Cincinnati Art Museum. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
  3. ^ "Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop". Getty Museum. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
  4. ^ "Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
  5. ^ "Herb Robinson. Untitled. 1965". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
  6. ^ "Herb Robinson". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
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