Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
2. Berger, Maurice, 1956-2020
3. Bey, Dawoud, 1953-
4. Raz-Russo, Michal
5. Kunhardt, Peter W., Jr., 1982-

Description

1. 205 pages : color illustrations, facsimilies; 30 cm

Summary

1. "This expanded edition of Gordon Parks: Segregation Story includes several previously unpublished photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks's original color transparencies. A selection of twenty-six images from Segregation Story first appeared in the September 24, 1956, issue of Life magazine as part of a photo essay titled 'The Restraints: Open and Hidden.' Although some of these were exhibited during his lifetime, the bulk of Parks's assignment was thought to be lost. In 2011, five years after Parks's death, the Gordon Parks Foundation found more than two hundred color transparencies belonging to the series. Images from these were originally published in 2014, and in the years since, new photographs have been uncovered and significant improvements have been made to reproductions of this pivotal body of work. With its vivid color pictures, the series offers a fresh perspective on a most controversial period in American history, which looms large in the collective memory almost exclusively through black-and-white imagery. Parks's empathetic approach eschewed the journalism that focused on the leaders and momentous events of the struggle for civil rights, and instead portrayed the common humanity of his fellow Americans going about daily life in unjust circumstances. Pursued at grave danger to the photographer himself, the project was an important chapter in Parks's career-long endeavor to use the camera as a weapon for social change. This edition of Segregation Story also includes newly discovered descriptions Parks wrote for the photographs. Edited by Michal Raz-Russo and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. and featuring previously published texts by the late art historian Maurice Berger and the esteemed journalist and civil rights activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, as well as a new essay by artist Dawoud Bey."--
2. Includes several previously unpublished photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks's original transparencies.

Uniform title

1. Works. Selections

Alternative title

1. Works.
2. Segregation story

Subject

1. African Americans
2. Black people > Segregation
3. Catalogs
4. United States
5. Black author
6. Portraits
7. Pictorial works
8. Alabama > Mobile
9. Portrait photography
10. Photography, Artistic
11. Documentary photography
12. Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
13. Mobile (Ala.) > Pictorial works
14. African Americans > Alabama > Mobile > Portraits
15. Black people > Segregation > Alabama > Mobile > Pictorial works
16. African American artists > Catalogs
17. African American photographers > Catalogs

Genre/Form

1. Pictorial works.
2. Portraits.
3. Catalogs.

Contents

1. Foreword / Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. and Michal Raz-Russo -- Doing the best we could with what we had / Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Gordon Parks: the South in color / Dawoud Bey -- With a small camera tucked in my pocket / Maurice Berger -- Plates -- Gordon Parks's Southern series, Take IV: film developing instructions and captions / Samuel F. Yette for Gordon Parks -- The restraints: open and hidden : Life magazine, September 24, 1956 / Gordon Parks and Robert Wallace.

Call number

1. Sc+ F 23-214

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references

Author

1. Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, photographer.

Title

1. Gordon Parks : segregation story / with contributions by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Maurice Berger; new essay by Dawoud Bey; edited by Michal Raz-Russo and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.

Publisher

1. Göttingen, Germany : Steidl ; Pleasantville, NY : Gordon Parks Foundation, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Edition

1. Expanded 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. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Hunter-Gault, Charlayne, contributor.
2. Berger, Maurice, 1956-2020, contributor.
3. Bey, Dawoud, 1953- contributor.
4. Raz-Russo, Michal, editor.
5. Kunhardt, Peter W., Jr., 1982- editor.

ISBN

1. 3969990262
2. 9783969990261

Research call number

1. Sc+ F 23-214