Art terms
Learn about the materials, techniques, movements, and themes of modern and contemporary art from around the world.
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Kamoinge Workshop
With a name derived from the Kikuyu word for “a group of people acting together,” a photography collective founded in 1963 as a shared political and artistic space for self-determination among a group of Black American photographers living and working in New York City. The group gathered weekly to exchange, review, and critique each other’s work. They produced two portfolios in 1964 and 1965, and were the driving force behind the publication of the Black Photographers Annual (1973–80). Key group members included Anthony Barboza, Adger Cowans, Roy DeCarava, Louis Draper, C. Daniel Dawson, Herman Howard, Larry Stewart, Ming Smith, and Shawn W. Walker.
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Kinetic art
Art that moves or has an element of motion. Artists making kinetic art may use motors to produce motion or may structure the work so that it is responsive to the natural movement of air currents.
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Kinetograph
The world’s first motion-picture camera, developed in 1890 by American inventor Thomas Alva Edison and his assistant and protégé, William K. L. Dickson. It was electrically powered and worked with celluloid film, which was advanced through the camera via a system of sprockets.
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Kinetoscope
A cabinet-like apparatus, forerunner of the motion-picture film projector, developed in 1891 by American inventor Thomas Alva Edison and his assistant and protégé, William K. L. Dickson. When a nickel was dropped into its slot, celluloid film (recorded in the Kinetograph) would roll through the Kinetoscope, passing between a lens and an electric light bulb (another of Edison’s inventions). A peephole at the top of the Kinetoscope allowed people to view moving pictures as the celluloid rolled past.
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