Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 - Couverture rigide

Parks, Gordon

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9783869306025: Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967

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ISBN 10 : 3869306025 ISBN 13 : 9783869306025

Editeur : Steidl Verlag, 2012

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Gordon Parks : A Harlem Family 1967 offers a fresh look at a landmark series by an iconic American artist. In the fall of 1967, artist and photojournalist Gordon Parks spent a month photographing the everyday lives of the Fontenelles, an impoverished Harlem family. Parks included twentysix works from the Fontenelle series in "A Harlem Family", a photo essay published in Lift magazine in March 1968, as part of a special section exploring race and poverty in American cities. Commemorating the November 2012 centennial of Parks's birth, this volume, along with an exhibition of the same name at The Studio Museum in Harlem, presents the photographs originally featured in Life, as well as dozens more from this important series - many never before shown, or even printed. A searing portrait of poverty in the United States, the Fontenelle photographs provide an intimate view of a neighborhood - and a nation - at a turbulent moment in time.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. An itinerant laborer, he worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself, and becoming a photographer. In addition to his storied tenures photographing for the Farm Security Administration (1941-1945) and Life magazine (1948-1972), Parks evolved into a modern-day Renaissance man, finding success as a film director, writer, and composer. The first African-American director to helm a major motion picture, he introduced the Blaxploitation genre through his film Shaft (1971). He wrote numerous memoirs, novels, and books of poetry, and received countless awards, including the National Medal of Arts, and more than fifty honorary degrees. Parks died in 2006.

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