Hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN:
9783969990261
Gordon Parks’s Segregation Story traces its origins to a landmark 1956 Life magazine photo essay titled "The Restraints: Open and Hidden," which documented the daily lives of an extended Black family, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton Sr., living under Jim Crow laws in Shady Grove and Mobile, Alabama.
For decades, the color transparencies from this assignment were presumed lost. In 2011, the Gordon Parks Foundation rediscovered more than 70 original color slides tucked away in an unopened storage box marked "Segregation Series".
This discovery led to the publication of the first edition monograph, Gordon Parks: Segregation Story, released by Steidl in 2014 in collaboration with the Gordon Parks Foundation. The first edition brought these vibrant, rare color images into print for the very first time, rescuing a vital piece of civil rights history from obscurity and offering an intimate look at dignity, resilience, and systemic oppression in the mid-century American South. This volume is the second expanded edition published in 2022.
Gordon Parks’s Segregation Story traces its origins to a landmark 1956 Life magazine photo essay titled "The Restraints: Open and Hidden," which documented the daily lives of an extended Black family, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton Sr., living under Jim Crow laws in Shady Grove and Mobile, Alabama.
For decades, the color transparencies from this assignment were presumed lost. In 2011, the Gordon Parks Foundation rediscovered more than 70 original color slides tucked away in an unopened storage box marked "Segregation Series".
This discovery led to the publication of the first edition monograph, Gordon Parks: Segregation Story, released by Steidl in 2014 in collaboration with the Gordon Parks Foundation. The first edition brought these vibrant, rare color images into print for the very first time, rescuing a vital piece of civil rights history from obscurity and offering an intimate look at dignity, resilience, and systemic oppression in the mid-century American South. This volume is the second expanded edition published in 2022.
Gordon Parks’s Segregation Story traces its origins to a landmark 1956 Life magazine photo essay titled "The Restraints: Open and Hidden," which documented the daily lives of an extended Black family, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton Sr., living under Jim Crow laws in Shady Grove and Mobile, Alabama.
For decades, the color transparencies from this assignment were presumed lost. In 2011, the Gordon Parks Foundation rediscovered more than 70 original color slides tucked away in an unopened storage box marked "Segregation Series".
This discovery led to the publication of the first edition monograph, Gordon Parks: Segregation Story, released by Steidl in 2014 in collaboration with the Gordon Parks Foundation. The first edition brought these vibrant, rare color images into print for the very first time, rescuing a vital piece of civil rights history from obscurity and offering an intimate look at dignity, resilience, and systemic oppression in the mid-century American South. This volume is the second expanded edition published in 2022.