Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Raz-Russo, Michal
2. Raiford, Leigh
3. Kunhardt, Peter W., Jr., 1982-
4. Gordon Parks Foundation.

Description

1. 321 pages : illustrations (some color); 33 x 28 cm

Summary

1. Frazier first traveled to Flint in 2016, as part of a magazine commission to create a photo essay about the water crisis. During that trip she met Shea Cobb, a Flint poet, activist and mother who became Frazier's collaborator in what would evolve into a five-year body of work. Divided into three acts, Flint is Family follows Cobb as she fights for her family's and community's health and wellbeing. Act I introduces Cobb, her family and The Sister Tour, a collective of women artists. Cobb lives with her mother and her daughter, Zion. She works as a school bus driver and hairstylist, while launching her career as a poet, writer and singer. To protect her daughter's health, Cobb makes the critical decision to leave her mother and friends behind and make the reverse migration to Mississippi, where her father resides on family-owned land. Act II follows Cobb and Zion to Newton, Mississippi, where they move in with Cobb's father, Douglas R. Smiley. There they learn how to take care of their Tennessee Walking Horses, as well as the land and fresh water springs they will one day inherit. Due to segregation and discrimination in the Newton County school system, Cobb and Zion eventually return to Flint. Act III documents the arrival of a 26,000-pound atmospheric water generator to Flint in 2019 that Frazier, Cobb and her best friend Amber Hasan, a hip-hop artist, herbalist and community organizer, helped set up and operate in their neighborhood. Spurred by the lack of mass-media interest in the impact of this ongoing crisis and inspired by the collaborative work of Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in 1940s Harlem, Frazier's approach ensures that the lives and voices of Flint's residents are seen and heard and that their collective creative endeavors provide a solution to this man-made water crisis.

Uniform title

1. Works. Selections

Alternative title

1. Works.
2. Flint is family in three acts : LaToya Ruby Frazier

Subject

1. Frazier, LaToya Ruby, 1982-
2. African American women artists -- Catalogs
3. African American women photographers -- Catalogs
4. Documentary photography -- Michigan -- Flint -- Catalogs
5. Photography, Artistic
6. art photography
7. documentary photography
8. Social conditions
9. Ecology
10. Documentary photography
11. African American women artists
12. African American women photographers
13. Environmental conditions
14. Flint (Mich.) -- Pictorial works
15. Flint (Mich.) -- Social conditions
16. Flint (Mich.) -- Environmental conditions
17. Michigan -- Flint
18. United States

Genre/Form

1. Photobooks.
2. Pictorial works.
3. Catalogs.

Contents

1. A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan / LaToya Ruby Frazier -- Act I / Shea S. Cobb -- Act II / Douglas R. Smiley -- Act III / Amber N. Hasan, Shea S. Cobb, and community members of Flint, Michigan -- The American landscape / Michal Raz-Russo -- Water no get enemy / Leigh Raiford -- Afterword / Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. -- List of works.

Call number

1. Sc+ G 23-32

Note

1. "The Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize 2021"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Frazier, LaToya Ruby, 1982- photographer, artist.

Title

1. Flint is family in three acts / LaToya Ruby Frazier ; Shea S. Cobb, Amber N. Hasan, Douglas R. Smiley, community members of Flint, Michigan ; edited by Michal Raz-Russo ; with contributions by Michal Raz-Russo, Leigh Raiford, Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.

Publisher

1. Göttingen, Germany : Steidl ; Pleasantville, New York : The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Local note

1. CO-PUB. W/ GORDON PARKS FDN. PHOTOGRAPHS IN COLOR. 11" X 12.75".

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Raz-Russo, Michal, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
2. Raiford, Leigh, writer of supplementary textual content.
3. Kunhardt, Peter W., Jr., 1982- writer of supplementary textual content.
4. Gordon Parks Foundation.

ISBN

1. 9783958297531 hardcover
2. 3958297536 hardcover

Research call number

1. Sc+ G 23-32