found: African American National Biography, accessed April 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Cowans, Adger W.; photographer; born 19 September 1936 in Columbus, Ohio, United States; BA in Photography from Ohio University (1958); photographer in the U.S. Navy (1958-1960); won a grant from the John Hay Whitney Foundation (1962); became freelance photographer (1963); member of Heliographers, a Boston-based photography group; his photographs appeared at Time, Look, Essence, and Harper's; was a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan and the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane; his photos resided in the collections of the NAACP, Schomburg Center, and Howard University)
