Gordon Parks: Segregation Story
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 386930801X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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But most of the pictures are studies of individuals, carefully composed and shot in lush color. (Randy Kennedy The New York Times Arts & Leisure) . Social issues are only part of the story. For many years, the full series was thought lost, but in 2011, more than 70 colour transparencies were resdiscovered. After nearly six decades much of the anger in America has dissipated and many wrongs have been righted, but the truth that Parks captured with his camera, his chronicle of suffering and redemption, of courage in the face of appalling injustice, still poss
Robin said Southern life not so long ago. A wonderful selection of photos from Gordon Parks assignment to Shady Grove and Mobile, Alabama, in 1956. As a Life magazine staffer he was the ideal photographer to cover colored life in Jim Crow country and the magazine spread the photos over a very generous twelve pages, though oddly the feature wasn't mentioned on the cover.The sixty photos in the book clearly show how a significant minority of Americans lived in the southern states back then. An aura of poverty comes across in so many of these images and Parks instinctive knack of framing the essential detail pulls you into the composition. The shacks, school, . "Love Gordon Parks Photography" according to Carol. If you are familiar with Gordon Parks and enjoy photo-essays, then this book is for you. Clichés have some bases in fact. These photographs are worth a thousand words.. "Book arrived quickly and in good condition. I was a little disappointed in the" according to Manfred Jones. Book arrived quickly and in good condition. I was a little disappointed in the pictures.There were only five pictures that I really wanted but they were excellent.
One of the most powerful photographs depicts Joanne Thornton Wilson and her niece, Shirley Anne Kirksey, standing in front of a theater in Mobile, Alabama, an image which became a forceful "weapon of choice," as Parks would say, in the struggle against racism and segregation. While 26 photographs were eventually published in Life and some were exhibited in his lifetime, the bulk of Parks' assignment was thought to be lost. In September 1956, Life magazine published a photo-essay by Gordon Parks entitled "The Restraints: Open and Hidden," which documented the everyday activities and rituals of one extended African American family living in the rural South under Jim Crow segregation. In 2011, five years after Parks' death, The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered more than 70 color transparencies at the bottom of an old storage bin marked "Segregation Series" that are now published for the first time in Segregation Story.