Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem

Michal Raz-Russo; Jean-Christophe Cloutier; John F. Callahan

ISBN 10: 3958291090 / ISBN 13: 9783958291096

Edité par Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation/The Art Institute of Chicago, 2016

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Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison were close friends whose shared vision of racial injustice led to two collaborations rarely seen in full until this volume: a 1948 photo-essay on Harlem's Lafargue Clinic (the city's first non-segregated psychiatric clinic) and a follow-up companion piece tied to Ellison's landmark 1952 novel Invisible Man. Presented together for the first time, Parks's photographs and Ellison's writing document postwar Harlem with a clarity that anticipated the novel's themes of invisibility and racial identity. Published to accompany an exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago.

Outside cover has some wear, no dust jacket, library stamp to an inner page, otherwise very good internally.

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Offered by the Vermont Center for Photography, a nonprofit arts organization based in Brattleboro, Vermont. Proceeds from book sales support exhibitions, education, and public access to the photographic arts.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem
• Éditeur: Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation/The Art Institute of Chicago
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3958291090
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783958291096
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: Assez bon
• État de la jaquette: Pas de jaquette
• Dimensions: 10,2 L x 11,65 H x 0,79 P (en pouces) 10,2 pouces de largeur par 11,65 pouces de hauteur par 0,79 pouces de profondeur
• Poids: 3,049 livres

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Synopsis

Invisible Man rend compte de l'étroite collaboration de Gordon Parks avec l'écrivain Ralph Ellisson, d'abord en 1948 pour un essai photographique intitulé Harlem is Nowhere qui ne fut jamais publié, puis autour du roman d'Ellison parut en 1952, Homme Invisible.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

By the mid-1940s, Gordon Parks was a successful photographer and Ralph Ellison began work on his acclaimed novel Invisible Man (1952). It is relatively unknown, however, that the two men were friends and that their common vision of racial injustice inspired collaboration on two important projects, in 1948 and 1952.

Parks and Ellison first joined forces on an essay titled “Harlem Is Nowhere” for ’48: The Magazine of the Year. Conceived while Ellison was already writing Invisible Man, this illustrated essay was centered on Harlem’s Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic―the first non-segregated psychiatric clinic in New York City―as a case study for the social and economic conditions of the neighborhood. He chose Parks to create the accompanying photographs and during the winter months of 1948, the two roamed the streets of Harlem. In 1952 they worked together again on “A Man Becomes Invisible” for the August 25 issue of Life magazine, which promoted Ellison’s newly released novel.

This is the first publication on Parks’ and Ellison’s collaboration on these two projects, one of which was lost while the other was published only in reduced form. The catalogue provides an in-depth look at the artists’ shared vision of black life in America, with Harlem as its nerve center.