Cover of Gordon Parks (PHT), Sarah Hermanson Meister (EDT), Nicole R. Fleetwood, Bryan Stevenson: Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks (PHT), Sarah Hermanson Meister (EDT), Nicole R. Fleetwood, Bryan Stevenson Gordon Parks

The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957

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Steidl

2020

Hardcover

117

Heavy

307132

978-3-95829-696-1

3-95829-696-3

Annotation

When Life magazine asked Gordon Parks to illustrate a recurring series of articles on crime in the United States in 1957, he had already been a staff photographer for nearly a decade, the first African American to hold this position. Parks embarked on a six-week journey that took him and a reporter to the streets of New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Unlike much of his prior work, the images made were in color. The resulting eight-page photo-essay "The Atmosphere of Crime" was noteworthy not only for its bold aesthetic sophistication, but also for how it challenged stereotypes about criminality then pervasive in the mainstream media. They provided a richly-hued, cinematic portrayal of a largely hidden world: that of violence, police work and incarceration, seen with empathy and candor.

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