Gordon Parks
Subtitle: segregation story
By: with contributions by Michael E. Shapiro [and others]
Edition: 1st ed.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9783869308012
Subjects: Documentary photography; Exhibitions; Photographie; African Americans; Pictorial works; Segregation
Other titles: Segregation story
Description: 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. 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 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.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, November 15, 2014 - June 7, 2015.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Michael E. Shapiro and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.; title: Introduction: Doing the best we could with what we had / Charlayne Hunter-Gault; title: With a small camera tucked in my pocket / Maurice Berger; title: Plates; title: Life Magazine: The Restraints: Open and Hidden, 1956.