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Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his life changed forever. He taught himself how to take pictures and before long, people noticed.
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This is a collection of Master American photographer Adger Cowan's predominantly black-and-white images taken over the past 40 years. The book follows his photographic evolution from Navy photographer to apprentice of Gordon Parks to the documenter of 1960s Harlem to a high-profile Hollywood portrait photographer with a client list that included Al Pacino, Jane Fonda, Katherine Hepburn, and Mick Jagger. His images embody 1960s documentary style, street...
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A "panoramic tale of twentieth-century America, chronicling the decades-long love affair between a Jewish immigrant and the granddaughter of a slave"--Amazon.com.
Julian Rose left his family and Germany for a new life in 1920s America. He eventually becomes one of the preeminent bootleggers on the East Coast, and later amasses a fortune in real estate. Kendall Wakefield, a free-spirited college senior, longs to become a painter. In 1938 her mother,...
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"The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured--and influenced--a critical moment in American history. Ernest Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and 60s: Martin Luther King Jr. riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till's uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at his nephew's killer. But from his position at the heart of the cultural revolution, Withers was simultaneously...
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In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the political slogan "Black Is Beautiful." This monograph--the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite's remarkable career--tells the story of a key, but under-recognized, figure of the second Harlem Renaissance. Inspired by the writings of activist and Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, Brathwaite, along with his older brother, Elombe Brath, founded the African...
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"Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement. Withers worked primarily a local photographer, as a freelancer...
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