{"product_id":"gordon-parks-born-black","title":"Gordon Parks: Born Black","description":"\u003cb\u003e'I came to each story with a strong sense of involvement, finding it difficult to screen out my own memories of a scarred past. But I tried for truth, the kind that comes through looking and listening, through the careful sifting of day-to-day emotions that white America whips up in black people. My own background has enabled me, I hope, to better share the experiences of some other black people. I do not presume to speak for them. I have just offered a glimpse, however fleeting, of their world through black eyes.' - Gordon Parks, 1970\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1971, Gordon Parks' \u003ci\u003eBorn Black\u003c\/i\u003e was the first book to unite his writing and his photography. It also provided a focused survey of Parks' documentation of a crucial time for the civil rights and Black Power movements. This expanded edition of \u003ci\u003eBorn Black\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates Parks' vision for the book and offers deeper insight into the series within it. The original publication featured nine articles commissioned by \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e magazine from 1963 to 1970 supplemented with later commentary by Parks and presented as his personal account of these historical moments. \u003ci\u003eBorn Black\u003c\/i\u003e includes the original text and images, as well as additional photographs from each series, facsimiles from the 1971 book, manuscripts and correspondence, reproductions of related \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e articles, and new scholarly essays. The nine series selected by Parks for \u003ci\u003eBorn Black\u003c\/i\u003e-a rare glimpse inside San Quentin State Prison; documentation of the Black Muslim movement and the Black Panthers; his commentaries on the deaths of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.; intimate portrait studies of Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali and Eldridge Cleaver; and a narrative of the daily life of the impoverished Fontenelle family in Harlem- have come to define his legendary career as a photographer and activist. This reimagined, comprehensive edition of \u003ci\u003eBorn Black\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the lasting legacy of these projects and their importance to our understanding of critical years in American history.","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42663983087652,"sku":"9783969992289","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783969992289.jpg?v=1777350317","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/gordon-parks-born-black","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}