Gordon Parks: Segregation Story. Expanded edition

Name: Gordon Parks: Segregation Story. Expanded edition
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783969990261
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In the summer of 1956, photographer Gordon Parks was sent to Alabama by Life magazine to document the life of African Americans under Jim Crow segregation laws. Over several weeks, he captured the daily life of the Causey family in the rural South. These powerful colour photographs, many never published until now, depict the harsh realities and resilience of African Americans during this pivotal moment before the civil rights movement. The expanded edition includes over 70 original transparencies and a new essay by artist Dawoud Bey, alongside texts by art historian Maurice Berger and civil rights activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, preserving Parks' iconic visual chronicle of injustice and courage.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in civil rights history, photography, African American culture, and social justice. It suits art historians, students, activists, and anyone seeking profound visual narratives of racial segregation in mid-20th century America.

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This new edition of Gordon Parks' Segregation Story includes several never-before-published photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks' original transparencies. A selection of 26 images from Segregation Story first appeared in the 24th September 1956 issue of Life 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.

In the summer following the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Life 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.

In addition to unseen images from the series, the expanded Segregation Story 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.

Co-published with The Gordon Parks Foundation.

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Critics have praised the enduring power of Parks' images to reveal truth and resilience amidst injustice. The Economist highlights the unsettling impact of his work even decades later, while Bookforum notes the photographs' richness and emotional depth, celebrating Parks' ability to capture both social realities and the imaginative worlds of childhood. CBS commends Parks' courageous photography as instrumental in awakening awareness during the civil rights era.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783969990261

Publisher: Steidl Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 August 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Steidl Verlag

Illustration: 120 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Michal Raz-Russo
Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt Jr

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 250.0mm

Height: 290.0mm

Weight: 1600g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a photographer, filmmaker, musician and author whose 50-year career focused on American culture, social justice, race relations, the civil rights movement and the Black American experience. Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, Parks was awarded the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in 1942, which led to a position with the Farm Security Administration. By the mid-1940s he was working as a freelance photographer for publications such as Vogue, Glamour and Ebony. Parks was hired in 1948 as a staff photographer for Life magazine, where for more than two decades he created groundbreaking work. In 1969 he became the first Black American to write and direct a major feature film, The Learning Tree, based on his semi-autobiographical novel, and his next directorial endeavor, Shaft (1971), helped define a film genre. Parks continued photographing, publishing and composing until his death in 2006.

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