John Kouns’s photography of social movements often appears un-credited in history books, but his images of the United Farm Workers movement and the march from Selma to Birmingham have been seen in many books and films as part of the archives of the American Labor movement at Wayne State University in Detroit. Kouns, trained at the New York Institute of Photography and made a successful career in industrial photography, but the pictures he shot for neither money nor credit help preserve the legacy of what made the social movements of the 1960's and 1970's so powerful. John rarely focused his attention on the leaders rather he was motivated by a sense of a people’s movement and turned to the people for inspiration. (Photo by Jon Lewis)
See more images by John Kouns in the Farmworker Movement Collection.
