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This five-volume collection surveys five decades of Gordon Parks’s photography, and is the most extensive publication to document his legendary career. Widely recognized as the most important and influential African-American photographer 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, 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 color photographs that were allusive rather than descriptive, symbolic rather than literal.
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Many of the images in Segregation Story had already appeared in Volume III of a handsome five-volume Collected Works published in late 2012, six years after Parks died at the age of ninety-three. But it's great to have more of them available, and at a price that makes them more attainable to those of Parks's admirers for whom the cost of the set would be a stretch.--Barry Schwabsky "Bookforum "
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- PublisherSteidl
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 3869305304
- ISBN 13 9783869305301
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages1360
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Collected Works Study Edition Volume 3 1956-1965
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Gordon Parks Foundation, Steidl Germany, 2012
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Collected Works Study Edition Volume 2 1947-1963
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Gordon Parks: Collected Works
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Condition: Like New. ** Complete Five Volume Set **; Near Fine/Like New; Hardcover; All five volumes are in close to new condition; The covers 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. Seller Inventory # SKU-0106AA04410163
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Gordon Parks: Collected Works Volumes I - V
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition 2012. Published by Steidl. Five volume hardback set in slipcase. Item Height: 290mm Item Width: 250mm. 1360pages. Text in English. Books Condition: Near Fine. Slipcase Condition: Near Fine - please see photographs. ***Heavy item: Postage will be calculated at time of purchase***. Seller Inventory # 0687
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Gordon Parks: Collected Works
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Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. This five-volume collection surveys five decades of Gordon Parks photography, and is the most extensive publication to document his legendary career. Widely recognized as the most important and influential African-American photographer of the twentieth century, Parks combined a unique documentary and artistic style with a profound commitment to social justice. Leineneinband im Schuber 1084 Seiten, 25 x 29 cm. Seller Inventory # St 01-70
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