John Duke Kisch

Born 1954 - Graduate of Bard college in 1976. New York commercial photographer in the 1970s-1980s concentrated on fashion, music, film and television. In 1980, created the Separate Cinema Archive, a museum collection of historic African American film posters. In 1990, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published a book about his collection; "Separate Cinema: 50 Years of Black Cast Posters" that pays tribute to the Black presence in American filmmaking. Today, The Separate Cinema Archive is an institution. It is the most extensive private holdings of African American film memorabilia in the world and provides traveling exhibits for museums, film festivals and prestigious institutions worldwide.