"These images and words are a gathering of individuals, events, places, conflicts and dilemmas that confronted me asI shifted from course to course in pursuit of survival. Some star-coloured, others, painted with rage, fall like rain in my memory. They all simmer down to what I remember, forgot, and what at last I know." Gordon Parks This five-volume collection surveys five decades of Gordon Parks' photography. It is the most extensive publication to document his legendary career. Widely recognized as the most important and ...
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"These images and words are a gathering of individuals, events, places, conflicts and dilemmas that confronted me asI shifted from course to course in pursuit of survival. Some star-coloured, others, painted with rage, fall like rain in my memory. They all simmer down to what I remember, forgot, and what at last I know." Gordon Parks This five-volume collection surveys five decades of Gordon Parks' photography. It is the most extensive publication to document his legendary career. Widely recognized as the most important and influential African-American photo grapher of the twentieth century, Parks combined a unique documentary and artistic style with a profound commitment to social justice. Working first for the Farm Security Administration and later for Life magazine, he specialized in extended narrative picture stories on difficult subject matter. Covering crime, poverty, segregation, the politics of race and class, and controversial personalities, Parks became legendary for his ability to meld penetrating insight with a lyrical aesthetic. He was thus able to introduce a broad and diverse public to people, issues and ideas they might otherwise have ignored. Parks was remarkably versatile, travelling the world to photograph news events and fashion, as well as the worlds of art, literature, music, theatre and film. Later in life, he reconceived his vision in fundamentally personal and poetic terms, producing colour photographs that were allusive rather than descriptive, symbolic rather than literal.
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** Complete Five Volume Set **; Near Fine/Like New; Hardcover; All five volumes are in close to new condition, but the original slipcase is missing; The covers of all five volumes are unmareked with "straight" edge-corners; The textblock edges of all volumes are unblemished; The endpapers and text pages of all volumes are bright and unmarked; The bindings are tight with straight spines; The slipcase is NOT included; This book set will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); Heavy (21.8 lbs); Gray cloth covers with titles in black and red lettering; 2012, Steidl Publishing; 1084 pages; "Gordon Parks: Collected Works, " by Gordon Parks.
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New in new dust jacket. 5 volume hardcover set. Slipcase is missing. Ship in sturdy box with bubble wrap. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 6 vols. 1084 p. Audience: General/trade.
