Research Catalog

Title

Gordon Parks : collected works.

Author

Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006

Publication

Göttingen, Germany : Steidl ; Pleasantville, NY : Gordon Parks Foundation, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kunhardt, Peter W., Jr., 1982-
• Roth, Paul, 1966-
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
• Willis, Deborah, 1948-
• Berger, Maurice, 1956-2020
• Burrows, Barbara Baker
• LeBourdais, George Philip
• Gordon Parks Foundation, publisher.
• Steidl Verlag, publisher.

Description

5 volumes : illustrations (some color); 30 cm

Summary

Working first for the Farm Security Administration and later for Life magazine, Gordon Parks specialized in extended narrative picture stories on difficult subject matter. Covering crime, poverty, segregation, the politics of race and class, and controversial personalities, Parks became legendary for his ability to meld penetrating insight with a lyrical aesthetic. He was thus able to introduce a broad and diverse public to people, issues and ideas they might otherwise have ignored. Parks was remarkably versatile, travelling the world to photograph news events and fashion, as well as the worlds of art, literature, music, theatre and film. Later in life, he reconceived his vision in fundamentally personal and poetic terms, producing colour photographs that were allusive rather than descriptive, symbolic rather than literal.

Alternative Title

Collected works

Subjects

• United States
• Documentary photography
• United States > Social conditions > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
• Pictorial works
• 1900-1999
• Social conditions
• Black author
• Photography, Artistic
• African Americans > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Note

• "Co-editors, Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Paul Roth; Texts, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Deborah Willis, Maurice Berger, Gordon Parks, Barbara Baker Burrows, Paul Roth, George Philip LeBourdais; Archives, the Gordon Parks Foundation at Purchase College, Library of Congress, University of Louisville, Time-Life."--Volume I, page [5].
• Chiefly black and white photographs; volume 5 includes reproductions of pages from Life magazine.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Volume I. 1942-1948 -- Volume II. 1947-1963 -- Volume III. 1956-1965 -- Volume IV. 1952-1998 -- Volume V. Life magazine, 1948-1970.
• Volume I: Foreword / by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. -- Introduction: the education of a photographer / by Paul Roth -- Elegance in black-and-white / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Washington, D.C., and Ella Watson, 1942 -- Harlem, 1943-1944 -- Bethune-Cookman College, 1943 -- Interracial children's camps, 1943 -- The Tuskegee Airmen, 1943 -- Gloucester fishermen, 1943 -- Fulton Fish Market, 1943 -- Hercules Brown, 1944 -- New England, 1944-1947 -- Grease plant workers, 1944 -- Pennsylvania, 1946 -- Workers in New York City, 1944-1948 -- Canada, 1945 -- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 1945.
• Volume II: Introduction: the protean camera / by Paul Roth -- "To one who moves with the new tide" / by Deborah Willis -- Harlem gang leader, 1948 -- Babe Ruth's funeral, 1948 -- Fort Scott revisited, 1949 -- Ingrid Bergman on Stromboli, 1949 -- European assignments, 1950-1951 -- Estoril, Portugal, 1951 -- American teenagers in Paris, 1952 -- Fashion, 1948-1953 -- Portraits, 1947-1963 -- Invisible man, 1952 -- Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, 1953 -- Blind River uranium, 1955 -- Benedictine monks, 1955.
• Volume III: Introduction: the storyteller / by Paul Roth -- The weapons of Gordon Parks / by Maurice Berger -- Segregation in the South, 1956 -- Crime, 1957 -- U.S. Steel, 1959 -- Peru, 1960 -- Fashion, 1956-1965 -- Duke Ellington, 1960 -- Flavio, 1961 -- The March on Washington, 1963 -- The learning tree, 1963 -- Black Muslims, 1963.
• Volume IV: Introduction: Renaissance man / by Paul Roth -- The spirit of color / by Gordon Parks -- Muhammad Ali, 1966/1970 -- Stokely Carmichael, 1967 -- Performers, 1952-1998 -- The Fontenelle Family, 1967 -- The Black Panthers, 1970 -- Color works, 1958-1975 -- Landscapes, 1964-1965 -- Later abstractions, 1993-1995.
• Volume V: Introduction: Gordon Parks at Life / by Paul Roth -- The Life years / by Barbara Baker Burrows -- Harlem gang leader, 1948 -- Paris fashions, 1949 -- Invisible man, 1952 -- Alexander Calder, 1952 -- Benedictine monks, 1955 -- Segregation in the South, 1956 -- Crime, 1957 -- Fashion at the zoo, 1959 -- Flavio, 1961 -- Black Muslims, 1963 -- The learning tree, 1963 -- The long search for pride, 1963 -- Muhammad Ali, 1966 -- The great food markets of the world, 1967 -- The Fontenelle Family, 1968.

Call Number

(C.R.) MFX (Parks) 18-894

ISBN

• 9783869305301
• 3869305304
• 9783869305301
• 9783869305301
• 9783869305301
• 9783869305301
• 9783869305301

OCLC

• 842150751
• 842150751

Author

Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, photography.

Title

Gordon Parks : collected works.

Publisher

Göttingen, Germany : Steidl ; Pleasantville, NY : Gordon Parks Foundation, 2012.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

Catalogues Raisonnés Collection (NYPL, Art & Architecture).

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Kunhardt, Peter W., Jr., 1982- editor.

Roth, Paul, 1966- editor, writer of added commentary.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., writer of added commentary.

Willis, Deborah, 1948- writer of added commentary.

Berger, Maurice, 1956-2020, writer of added commentary.

Burrows, Barbara Baker, writer of added commentary.

LeBourdais, George Philip, writer of added commentary.

Gordon Parks Foundation, publisher.

Steidl Verlag, publisher.

Research Call Number

(C.R.) MFX (Parks) 18-894

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