Kenneth F. Space (1903–1971) was a pictorial journalist, documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and commercial photographer in the 1930s and 1940s.
From 1929 to 1931, Space worked for Agfa-Ansco, a film and camera manufacturer.
A skilled still photographer and motion picture cinematographer, Space worked with the Harmon Foundation in the 1930s and 1940s, producing numerous photographs and several documentaries focused on the activities of African Americans in the American South including daily life, education and art.
[2] His photographs also include those of many prominent African American scholars and leaders including Bethune Cookman's Mary McLeod Bethune, Atlanta University's Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Tuskegee Institute's George Washington Carver, 1936 Olympian and former Congressman Ralph Metcalfe of Xavier University of Louisiana, and Lift Every Voice and Sing songwriter and Fisk University professor James Weldon Johnson.
[3] Space's 1941 photograph of famed African American painter Jacob Lawrence was featured prominently in the Seattle Art Museum's exhibit of Lawrence's famous Migration Series, Lawrence's series of paintings depicting the African American migration from the American South in the 1910s to the northern United States.