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Gordon Parks : collected works / co-editors, Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Paul Roth ; texts, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Deborah Willis, Maurice Berger, Gordon Parks, Barbara Baker Burrows, Paul Roth, George Philip LeBourdais; archives, The Gordon Parks Foundation at Purchase College, Library of Congress, University of Louisville, Time-Life

Catalog Data

Author:
Parks, Gordon 1912-2006  Search this
Kunhardt, Peter W. Jr. 1982-  Search this
Roth, Paul 1966-  Search this
Gates, Henry Louis Jr  Search this
Willis, Deborah 1948-  Search this
Berger, Maurice 1956-  Search this
Burrows, Barbara Baker  Search this
LeBourdais, George Philip  Search this
Gordon Parks Foundation  Search this
Subject:
Parks, Gordon 1912-2006  Search this
Physical description:
5 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Place:
United States
Date:
2012
20th century
Notes:
Chiefly black and white photographs; volume 5 includes reproductions of pages from Life magazine.
Issued in slip case.
Contents:
v. 1. 1942-1948 -- v. 2. 1947-1963 -- v. 3. 1956-1965 -- v. 4. 1952-1998 -- v. 5. Life magazine, 1948-1970
Volume I: Foreword / by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. -- Introduction: the education of a photographer / by Paul Roth -- Elegance in black-and-white / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Washington, D.C., and Ella Watson, 1942 -- Harlem, 1943-1944 -- Bethune-Cookman College, 1943 -- Interracial children's camps, 1943 -- The Tuskegee Airmen, 1943 -- Gloucester fishermen, 1943 -- Fulton Fish Market, 1943 -- Hercules Brown, 1944 -- New England, 1944-1947 -- Grease plant workers, 1944 -- Pennsylvania, 1946 -- Workers in New York City, 1944-1948 -- Canada, 1945 -- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 1945
Volume II: Introduction: the protean camera / by Paul Roth -- "To one who moves with the new tide" / by Deborah Willis -- Harlem gang leader, 1948 -- Babe Ruth's funeral, 1948 -- Fort Scott revisited, 1949 -- Ingrid Bergman on Stromboli, 1949 -- European assignments, 1950-1951 -- Estoril, Portugal, 1951 -- American teenagers in Paris, 1952 -- Fashion, 1948-1953 -- Portraits, 1947-1963 -- Invisible man, 1952 -- Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, 1953 -- Blind River uranium, 1955 -- Benedictine monks, 1955
Volume III: Introduction: the storyteller / by Paul Roth -- The weapons of Gordon Parks / by Maurice Berger -- Segregation in the South, 1956 -- Crime, 1957 -- U.S. Steel, 1959 -- Peru, 1960 -- Fashion, 1956-1965 -- Duke Ellington, 1960 -- Flavio, 1961 -- The March on Washington, 1963 -- The learning tree, 1963 -- Black Muslims, 1963
Volume IV: Introduction: Renaissance man / by Paul Roth -- The spirit of color / by Gordon Parks -- Muhammad Ali, 1966/1970 -- Stokely Carmichael, 1967 -- Performers, 1952-1998 -- The Fontenelle Family, 1967 -- The Black Panthers, 1970 -- Color works, 1958-1975 -- Landscapes, 1964-1965 -- Later abstractions, 1993-1995
Volume V: Introduction: Gordon Parks at Life / by Paul Roth -- The Life years / by Barbara Baker Burrows -- Harlem gang leader, 1948 -- Paris fashions, 1949 -- Invisible man, 1952 -- Alexander Calder, 1952 -- Benedictine monks, 1955 -- Segregation in the South, 1956 -- Crime, 1957 -- Fashion at the zoo, 1959 -- Flavio, 1961 -- Black Muslims, 1963 -- The learning tree, 1963 -- The long search for pride, 1963 -- Muhammad Ali, 1966 -- The great food markets of the world, 1967 -- The Fontenelle Family, 1968
Summary:
Working first for the Farm Security Administration and later for Life magazine, Gordon Parks specialized in extended narrative picture stories on difficult subject matter. Covering crime, poverty, segregation, the politics of race and class, and controversial personalities, Parks became legendary for his ability to meld penetrating insight with a lyrical aesthetic. He was thus able to introduce a broad and diverse public to people, issues and ideas they might otherwise have ignored. Parks was remarkably versatile, travelling the world to photograph news events and fashion, as well as the worlds of art, literature, music, theatre and film. Later in life, he reconceived his vision in fundamentally personal and poetic terms, producing colour photographs that were allusive rather than descriptive, symbolic rather than literal.
Topic:
Documentary photography  Search this
Photography, Artistic  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1040391