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Additional authors

1. Heiferman, Marvin
2. Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979-
3. Raiford, Leigh
4. Willis, Deborah, 1948-
5. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
6. Bey, Dawoud, 1953-
7. Faustine, Nona
8. Kunhardt, Peter W., Jr., 1982-

Description

1. 311 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

1. "The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Series-featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. Created and coedited by Drs. Sarah Lewis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis, the series reexamines and redresses historical narratives of photography, race, and justice. Edited by Marvin Heiferman, Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images examines the transformational role photography plays in shaping ideas and attitudes about race and how photographic images have been instrumental in both perpetuating and combating racial stereotypes. Written between 2012 and 2019 and first presented as a monthly feature on the New York Times Lens blog, Berger's incisive essays help readers see a bigger picture about race through storytelling. By directing attention to the most revealing aspects of images, Berger makes complex issues comprehensible, vivid, and engaging. The essays illuminate a range of images, issues, and events: the modern civil rights movement; African American-, Latinx-, Asian American-, and Native American photography; and pivotal moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when race, photography, and visual culture intersected. They also examine the full spectrum of photographic imaging: from amateur to professional pictures, from snapshots to fine art, from mugshots to celebrated icons of photojournalism. Race Stories collects together Berger's reader-friendly essays in their breadth and brilliance to encourage a broad range of readers to look at and think about photographs in order to better understand themselves and the diverse world around them."--

Series statement

1. Vision & justice book series ; vol 1

Alternative title

1. Essays on the power of images
2. Essays on the power of images, published in The New York Times

Subject

1. Civil rights
2. Art and society
3. Pictorial works
4. Essays
5. United States
6. 1900-1999
7. Civil rights > United States > Pictorial works
8. African Americans > Pictorial works
9. Art and society > United States > 20th century
10. Race in art > 20th century
11. African Americans > Race identity > In art
12. Photography, Artistic > 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Essays.
2. Pictorial works.

Contents

1. Series editors' note / by Sarah Lewis, Leigh Raiford, Deborah Willis -- Foreword / by Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Introduction / by Maurice Berger -- Reviviting images: the past seen anew -- A radically prosaic approach to civil rights images -- The woman in a Jim Crow photo -- Reconsidering the Black Panthers through photos -- Chronicling the virtuosity and struggles of 1970s soul and funk musicians -- Holding a mirror to race -- Photographing civil rights, up north and beyond Dixie -- Whiteness and race, between the storms -- The heartbeat of our being, in black and white -- Black performers, fading fame, and memory -- The cinematic images of Gordon Parks -- A momentous day driven by ordinary people -- Robert Frank, telling it like it was -- Visibility: strategies of representation -- Malcolm X as visual strategist -- Zanele Muholi: paying homage to the history of Black women -- When glamour speaks your name -- The quiet heroism of Arthur Ashe -- Making the Confederate flag invisible -- Three generations of Black women in family photos -- One drop, but many views on race -- Black fathers, present and accountable -- Black dandies, style rebels with a cause -- Framing--and reflecting--beauty -- These 1970s pageants celebrated Black women's beauty -- Pictures of men, friends or lovers -- Gordon Park's Harlem argument -- Dr. King's complex relationship with the camera -- History and memory: engaging the past to understand the present -- Reimagining a tragedy, fifty years later -- Rarely seen photos of Japanese internment -- An elegy to India's vanishing cinemas -- The modern spirits of Ebony and Jet -- The lasting power of Emmett Till's image -- This photo of a seven-year-old girl transformed the abolition movement -- Anonymous men, made real -- Images of emancipation -- A civil rights photographer, and a struggle, are remembered -- Finding inspiration in the struggle at Resurrection City -- A cultural history of civil rights -- Black soldiers: fighting America's enemies abroad and racism at home -- Lynchings in the west, erased from history and photos -- Fifty years after their mug shots, portraits of Mississippi's Freedom Riders -- Lee Friedlander's overlooked civil rights photos -- Escaping to freedom, in the shadows of the night -- Witnessing: images as catalysts for change -- Meditation on President Obama's portrait -- A meditation on race, in shades of white -- Bearing witness to Jim Crow in Mississippi with uncompromising candor -- Documenting Selma, from the inside -- Photos that challenge stereotypes about African American youths -- Intimate photos of community and resilience in New York's Chinatown in the 1980s -- In Ferguson, photographs as powerful agents -- Capturing the struggle for racial equality, past and present -- A photographer who made "ghosts" visible -- The Holocaust's paradox of good and evil, in photographs -- The faces of bigotry: when the hoods come off -- Civil rights, one person and one photo at a time -- Community: visualizing the connections between us -- Jamal Shabazz's forty years of sights and styles in New York -- Complicating the picture of urban life -- Born by a river, watching the change -- Past and present collide in Pittsburgh -- A photographer's search for the magic in everyday life -- Artists of color as avatars of originality -- American culture, riding a mushroom cloud -- A Russian American photographing native Alaska -- Documenting the dynamic Black community of 1940s Seattle -- What the camera sees, and doesn't see -- LaToya Ruby Frazier's notion of family -- Kamoinge's half-century of African American photography -- aAfterword: Reflections on Maurice Berger and his work / by Dawoud Bey, Nona Faustine, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. -- Contributor bios -- Acknowledgments -- Image credits.

Call number

1. JQE 25-298

Author

1. Berger, Maurice, 1956-2020, author.

Title

1. Race stories : essays on the power of images / by Maurice Berger ; edited by Marvin Heiferman ; series editors' note by Sarah Lewis, Leigh Raiford, Deborah Willis ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; afterword by Dawoud Bey, Nona Faustine, Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.

Publisher

1. New York : The New York Times : Aperture, 2024.

Copyright date

1. ©2024

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Vision & justice book series ; vol 1

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Heiferman, Marvin, editor.
2. Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979- writer of supplementary textual content.
3. Raiford, Leigh, writer of supplementary textual content.
4. Willis, Deborah, 1948- writer of supplementary textual content.
5. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., writer of foreword.
6. Bey, Dawoud, 1953- writer of afterword.
7. Faustine, Nona, writer of afterword.
8. Kunhardt, Peter W., Jr., 1982- writer of afterword.

Note

1. Subtitle on cover: Essays on the power of images, published in The New York Times

LCCN

1. 2024033730

ISBN

1. 9781597115629 (hardcover)
2. 1597115622

Research call number

1. JQE 25-298