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Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe is an African American photographer and social activist most known for for her photographs chronicling her husband, tennis great Arthur Ashe's last year struggling with AIDS.

Biography
Moutoussamy-Ashe was born on July 9, 1951. Born and and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She was an only child to father, John Warren Moutoussamy, an architect and mother, Elizabeth Rose Hunt Moutoussamy, an interior designer.

Moutoussamy-Ashe married tennis pro Arthur Ashe in 1977. Ashe died of AIDS-related illnesses in 1993. The couple had one daughter together. Moutoussamy-Ashe published a book of photographs showing her husband’s last years, using their daughter as inspiration.

Education
At the age of eight she was enrolled in classes Art Institute of Chicago. She received a B.F.A. degree in photography from The Cooper Union School of Art, graduating in 1975.

Career
After graduating college she worked as a graphic artist and photojournalist for WNBC-TV. In 1976, Moutoussamy-Ashe was hired to take photographs at the United Negro College Fund tennis event, where she met tennis great, Arthur Ashe and later married. Her work has been featured in Life Magazine, The New York Times, People and the Associated Press. (PLEASE link, Cite)

Moutoussamy-Ashe has had multiple museums and gallery exhibition around the world including Lecica Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. PLEASE CITE, and link.

Moutoussamy is the founder of the Arthur Ashe Learning Center (AALC) (WHAT DOES THIS DO?) Which she made in memory of her late husband.

Moutoussamy-Ashe has also worked to bring awareness about cultures and other people lives's in which she developed on her independent study in West Africa which was showed in her 1977 book project on the inhabitants of Daufuskie Island.

Books & Exhibitions
(These all need citations, and a bit more info, links to other pages where appropriate.)

Daufuskie Island: A Photographic Essay (1982)

Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers (1993)

Daddy and Me: A Photo Story of Arthur Ashe and his Daughter Camera (1993)

African Flower: Singing of Angels (2001)