{"title":"Gordon Parks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGordon Parks\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of social history through the lens of photography and narrative. His works delve deeply into themes of segregation and cultural identity, capturing powerful moments that reveal the complexities of American life in the mid-20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect evocative visual storytelling combined with insightful commentary on art, society, and race. These books blend striking images with reflective prose, making them essential for anyone interested in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and the enduring impact of visual documentation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"gordon-parks-herklas-brown-and-maine-1944-by-gordon-parks-9783969993620","title":"Gordon Parks: Herklas Brown and Maine, 1944","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn January 1944, during the height of World War II, Gordon Parks photographed Herklas Brown—the owner of the general store and Esso gas station in Somerville, Maine. Parks traveled to the state under the auspices of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) (SONJ) to record SONJ's contributions to the war effort and to document the home front in this crucial period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis photographs chronicled oil and gas facilities and workers, Esso gas station owners in small towns, as well as people whose lives depended on fuel and other SONJ products. Consistent with his work before and after, Parks made it his mission to get to know his subjects and show their humanity, photographing Brown at his Esso station and with his family at the dinner table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTraveling at a time when transportation, food, and lodging were a challenge, and notably as a Black man traveling alone, Parks nonetheless created a compelling documentary record of rural America that offers insight into this historic moment, as well as his early photographic practice directly before joining the staff of \u003cem\u003eLife\u003c\/em\u003e magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in conjunction with an exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, \u003cem\u003eHerklas Brown and Maine, 1944\u003c\/em\u003e features more than 90 previously unpublished photographs by Parks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596494192876,"sku":"9783969993620","price":132.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c3758b3129df91a4b717bc46793e2639.jpg?v=1777928547"},{"product_id":"gordon-parks-segregation-story-expanded-edition-by-gordon-parks-9783969990261","title":"Gordon Parks: Segregation Story. Expanded edition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of Gordon Parks' \u003ci\u003eSegregation Story\u003c\/i\u003e includes several never-before-published photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks' original transparencies. A selection of 26 images from \u003ci\u003eSegregation Story\u003c\/i\u003e first appeared in the 24th September 1956 issue of \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e magazine as part of the photo-essay \"The Restraints: Open and Hidden.\" Although some of these were exhibited during his lifetime, the bulk of Parks' assignment was thought lost. In 2011, five years after Parks' death, The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered more than 70 colour transparencies from the series. Revising the original book published by Steidl in 2014, this expanded edition is the most comprehensive publication of this pivotal body of work to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer following the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e magazine sent Gordon Parks to Alabama to document the daily realities of African Americans living under Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation. Over the course of several weeks in the summer of 1956, he photographed an extended African-American family, the Causeys, at home and work in the rural South. The resulting colour photographs are among Parks' most powerful and groundbreaking images, and have since become iconic representations of the conditions that led to the civil rights movement. Among them is one of Joanne Thornton Wilson and her niece, Shirley Anne Kirksey, standing in front of a theatre in Mobile, Alabama—a celebrated image that became, in Parks' words, a forceful \"weapon of choice\" in the struggle against racism and segregation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to unseen images from the series, the expanded \u003ci\u003eSegregation Story\u003c\/i\u003e includes a new essay by artist Dawoud Bey, alongside texts from the first edition by the late art historian Maurice Berger and the esteemed journalist and civil rights activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCo-published with The Gordon Parks Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596494258412,"sku":"9783969990261","price":130.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e04c720be9ebba3f430248ff37ae9940.jpg?v=1777928541"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/gordon-parks.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}