Draft:Dorothy Gloster

Dorothy Gloster is a American photographer based in New York. She was known for her work in the Collective Black Photographers.

Biography
Dorothy Gloster began her career in photography in New York City. In 1970, she joined the camera club at Hamilton Madison House. In her work with the Collective Black Photographers, Gloster centers what she calls "moments in between". In 1973, Gloster was awarded a New York State's Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS) fellowship.

Gloster visited villages in Ghana and Nigeria, photographing quiet moments of life. In the mid-1970s, Gloster worked on photography therapy for people with mental illnesses.

Gloster was a member of the Kamoinge Workshop (Kamoinge, from the Kikuyu language of Kenya, means “to work together”), a group of African American artists in New York City. Gloster collaborated with American photographer Louis H. Draper on the 1974 magazine "Outlook". She was a member of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Portraits of her are held at the Carnegie Museum of Art and in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archive.

Selected exhibitions

 * Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 1972
 * Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, New York City, 1973
 * James Van Der Zee Institute, New York City, 1975
 * Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, 1975

Selected publications

 * Crawford, Joe, et al. The Black Photographer's Annual 1973
 * Barboza, Anthony, et al. Creative Artists Public Service Program. Painters, Sculptors, Graphic Artists, Photographers, 1973-74.
 * Willis, Deborah. An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography of Black Photographers, 1940-1988 / [Deborah Willis-Thomas]. New York: Garland, 1989. Print. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities ; Vol. 760.