{"product_id":"gordon-parks-born-black-9783969992289","title":"Gordon Parks: Born Black","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I came to each story with a strong sense of involvement, finding it difficult to screen out my own memories of a scarred past. But I tried for truth, the kind that comes through looking and listening, through the careful sifting of day-to-day emotions that white America whips up in black people. My own background has enabled me, I hope, to better share the experiences of some other black people. I do not presume to speak for them. I have just offered a glimpse, however fleeting, of their world through black eyes.\" - Gordon Parks, 1970\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1971, Gordon Parks' \u003cem\u003eBorn Black\u003c\/em\u003e was the first book to unite his writing and his photography. It also provided a focused survey of Parks' documentation of a crucial time for the civil rights and Black Power movements. This expanded edition of \u003cem\u003eBorn Black\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates Parks' vision for the book and offers deeper insight into the series within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe original publication featured nine articles commissioned by \u003cem\u003eLife\u003c\/em\u003e magazine from 1963 to 1970, supplemented with later commentary by Parks and presented as his personal account of these historical moments. \u003cem\u003eBorn Black\u003c\/em\u003e includes the original text and images, as well as additional photographs from each series, facsimiles from the 1971 book, manuscripts and correspondence, reproductions of related \u003cem\u003eLife\u003c\/em\u003e articles, and new scholarly essays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe nine series selected by Parks for \u003cem\u003eBorn Black\u003c\/em\u003e—a rare glimpse inside San Quentin State Prison; documentation of the Black Muslim movement and the Black Panthers; his commentaries on the deaths of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.; intimate portrait studies of Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali, and Eldridge Cleaver; and a narrative of the daily life of the impoverished Fontenelle family in Harlem—have come to define his legendary career as a photographer and activist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis reimagined, comprehensive edition of \u003cem\u003eBorn Black\u003c\/em\u003e highlights the lasting legacy of these projects and their importance to our understanding of critical years in American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424202244332,"sku":"9783969992289","price":120.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783969992289.jpg?v=1774768887","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/gordon-parks-born-black-9783969992289","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}