PARKS, Gordon - Segregation Story

HERE AS NEW, EXPANDED EDITION!

Background information

In the summer following the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Life magazine sent Gordon PARKS to Alabama to document the daily realities of African Americans living under Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation. Over the course of several weeks in summer 1956, he photographed an extended Black family, the Causeys, at home and work in the rural South. The resulting images are among the US-american most powerful and groundbreaking, and have since become iconic representations of the conditions that led to the civil rights movement. Among them is one of Joanne Thornton Wilson and her niece, Shirley Anne Kirksey, standing in front of a theater in Mobile, Alabama―a celebrated photograph that became, in photographer's own words, a forceful 'weapon of choice' in the struggle against racism and segregation. A selection of 26 images from 'Segregation Story' first appeared in the September 24, 1956 issue of Life magazine as part of the photo essay 'The Restraints: Open and Hidden.' Although some of these were exhibited during his lifetime, the bulk of the US-photographer's assignment was thought lost. In 2011, five years after his death, The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered more than 70 color transparencies from the series. Revising the original book in 2014, this expanded edition is the most comprehensive publication of this pivotal body of work to date.

Content

This new edition (2022) of the photo volume 'Segregation Story' by Gordon PARKS includes several never-before-published photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from his original transparencies.
In addition to unseen images from the series, the expanded new edition includes a new essay by photo artist Dawoud BEY, alongside texts from the first edition by the late art historian Maurice Berger and the esteemed journalist and civil rights activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault." (© Steidl Verlag, 2022)

About US-american photographer, Gordon PARKS (1912-2006)

Photo books by and with works by Gordon PARKS