A Million Faces: The Photography of John W. Mosley
09/24/2016
01/16/2017
About the Exhibition
Image: PTC Protest, November 8, 1943, 1943. (John W. Mosley Photograph Collection, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA.)
An Exhibition in Partnership with Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries
John W. Mosley (1907–1969) was one of the premier photojournalists of 20th-century Philadelphia. He chronicled the vitality of the black community and life in the segregated city from the 1930s through the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. A catalogue of A Million Faces is available for purchase in our museum store.
For their generous support of this exhibition and catalogue, Woodmere extends sincere thanks and appreciation to the Lomax Family Foundation, William M. King Charitable Foundation, Ethel Benson Wister, and Mary G. David.
Exhibition Programming
09.24.16 | Open House: A Million Faces: The Photography of John W. Mosley
09.24.16 | Members' Tour
09.30.16 | Chicken Bone Beach . . . The Black Music Experience in Atlantic City!
10.15.16 | Lecture: Black Philadelphia and the Spirit of Unity: Art and Culture
11.03.16 | Art Dive: Ron Tarver
11.04.16 | Lionel Hampton—Breaking Barriers
11.14.16 | Lecture: A Literary Lens on the Photography of John W. Mosley
11.18.16 | It Don’t Mean a Thing Unless Duke and Ella Swing
12.16.16 | Holiday Sings the Holidays
01.07.17 | Charles L. Blockson on the Photography of John W. Mosley
01.14.17 | Classical Saturdays: A Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr
01.16.17 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Festival
01.07.17 | Charles L. Blockson on the Photography of John W. Mosley
01.14.17 | Classical Saturdays: A Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr
01.16.17 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Festival
Select Photographs
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US Representative William J. Green, Jr., Philadelphia Mayor James H.J. Tate, US President John F. Kennedy, and US Senator Joseph S. Clark from Pennsylvania at an Independence Hall Fourth of July celebration
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Dox Thrash at the Pyramid Club, Philadelphia
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Duke Ellington and Cootie Williams at Nixon’s Grand Theater, Broad Street and Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia
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Seated crowd of people
In the News
From cotillions to protests, visitors fill in the gaps at John W. Mosley exhibit
01/11/2017
The Philadelphia Inquirer
John Mosley's photos at Woodmere: The Philly African American world at midcentury
12/04/2016
The Philadelphia Inquirer
A Million Faces: This John W. Mosley exhibit will leave Philadelphians reminiscing
11/16/2016
Philadelphia Inquirer
Joys and realities of black life in Philadelphia chronicled in Mosley photos at Woodmere
11/10/2016
NewsWorks
Blockson collection co-curated exhibit featuring photography of Black life
10/25/2016
The Temple News
Black Philadelphia, 1930’s-1960’s: John W. Mosley’s photographs of ‘A Million Faces’
10/01/2016
Vin de Vie Wine of Life
Woodmere Art Museum’s A Million Faces: The Photography of John W. Mosley Viewing the past with an eye toward the future
09/26/2016
Broad Street Review
A new Asian wing for the Art Museum -- and other major art exhibitions in Philly this fall
09/16/2016
Philly.com
Press Releases
Philadelphia's Twentieth Century Black History Is The Focus Of New Exhibition
09/12/2016
Temple University
