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James Baldwin: Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time - Hardcover

Baldwin, James

 
9783836596992: James Baldwin: Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time

Synopsis

First published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America’s so-called “Negro problem.” As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the “land of the free.”

Now, James Baldwin’s rich, raw, and ever relevant prose is reprinted with more than 100 photographs from Steve Schapiro, who traveled the American South with Baldwin for Life magazine. The encounter thrust Schapiro into the thick of the movement, allowing for vital, often iconic, images both of civil rights leaders―including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Jerome Smith―and such landmark events as the March on Washington and the Selma march.

Rounding out the edition are Schapiro’s stories from the field, captions by journalist Marcia Davis, and an essay by Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart, who was with her brother James in Sierra Leone when he started to work on the story. The result is a remarkable visual and textual record of one of the most important and enduring struggles of the American experience.

First published as a TASCHEN Collector’s Edition, now available in a pocket-sized Centennial Edition.

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About the Authors

James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era. His nonfiction collections, most notably Notes of a Native Son (1955) and The Fire Next Time (1963), and novels, including Giovanni’s Room (1956) and Another Country (1962), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in mid-20th-century America. A Harlem, New York, native, he primarily made his home in the south of France.



Steve Schapiro’s career as a freelance photojournalist started with a story on Arkansas migrant workers that made the cover of the The New York Times Magazine in 1961. Since then, his images have appeared in Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. In the 1970s, he began a second career as a successful publicity stills and movie poster photographer, working on classic films such as Taxi Driver, The Way We Were, and The Godfather―which can be seen in The Godfather Family Album (TASCHEN, 2008). In 2016, he collaborated with Lawrence Schiller on a Barbra Streisand book (TASCHEN) and in 2017, his Civil Rights photographs were combined with the text of James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time (TASCHEN). He died in 2022.

From the Back Cover

In seinem 1963 erschienenen Essay The Fire Next Time thematisierte der afroamerikanische Schriftsteller und Bürgerrechtsaktivist James Baldwin (1924-1987) den "Albtraum der Rassenfrage" in den USA und die Wut in den Gettos der US-Großstädte auf so bestechende, kunstvolle und eindringliche Weise, dass er damit weltweit Gehör fand. In Form eines fragmentarischen, episodenhaften Selbstzeugnisses zeigte sein einflussreicher Text die ganze Komplexität dieser Problematik auf und verhandelt zentrale Fragen wie die nach der Konstruktion von privater und sozialer Identität angesichts der Rollenvorgaben durch die weiße Mehrheitsgesellschaft und der eigenen Peergroup.

Auch mehr als 30 Jahre nach Baldwins Tod bedeutet Schwarzsein in den USA immer noch, ein von Rassismus und Gewalt bedrohtes Leben, und The Fire Next Time ist von bedrückender Aktualität. Seinen mahnenden und zum geflügelten Wort gewordenen Titel fand Baldwin in einem Spiritual: "God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water, fire next time!"

James Baldwins legendären Text haben wir mit über 100 Fotografien von Steve Schapiro bebildert, der mit Baldwin für die Zeitschrift Life durch die Südstaaten der USA reiste. Schapiros Bilder zeigen die führenden Köpfe der Bürgerrechtsbewegung - darunter Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth und Jerome Smith - und zentrale Ereignisse wie den Marsch auf Washington und den Selma-Marsch.

Abgerundet wird die Ausgabe durch einen Erlebnisbericht Schapiros, Bildunterschriften von Marcia Davis von der Washington Post und einen Essay von Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart, die mit ihrem Bruder James in Sierra Leone lebte, als er mit dem Verfassen dieses Textes begann.

Zunächst als Collector's Edition erschienen - jetzt in dieser handlichen Jubiläumsausgabe zu Ehren von Baldwins 100. Geburtstag erhältlich.

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