Consuelo Kanaga (May 25, 1894 – February 28, 1978) was an American photographer and writer who became well known for her photographs of African Americans.
Kanaga has been called "one of America's most transcendent yet, surprisingly, least-known photographers." She had a wide range of visual interests, from pictorialism to photojournalism to portraiture to cityscape to still lifes. It's been said that the dominant theme in her work is an "abiding interest in, and engagement with, the American scene." She celebrated the human in every photo she took, whether it was images of sharecroppers and their homes in the South or found still lifes of flowers and curtains. She was also noted as a technician of the highest skills in the darkroom. Her portraiture included many well-known artists and writers of the 1930s and '40s including Milton Avery, Morris Kantor, Wharton Esherick, Mark Rothko and W. Eugene Smith.
