Isbn: 9783869309187 - back to fort scott (2 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket. B&W pictorial DJ is crisp and glossy. Book is bound in maroon cloth over boards with gray lettering on the spine. Corners are square. Binding is tight and secure. Pages have a very slight tone, but are otherwise crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in B&W. 143 pages. Steidl. No publication date on title page. Copyright page is dated 2015. A very good copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: FINE. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: FINE. First Edition. 143pp. B/W photobook. FINE in FINE dust jacket. 'Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott focuses on a little-known photo essay about school segregation undertaken by Gordon Parks in 1950 for Life. Because it never appeared in the pages of the magazine, few are aware of this landmark story, which brought Parks back to his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas, more than twenty years after he left as a teenager and moved north to Minnesota following the death of his mother. The issue of segregated education was regularly in the news during the years leading up to the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision (1954), and the state of Kansas was at the center of that debate. 'Back to Fort Scott' was one of the earliest civil rights assignments given to Parks after he became Life's first African A marican staff photographer, and it inspired him to revisit his own childhood and search hic classmates from the all-black Plaza School. Taking these striking portraits of his friends and their families as they recounted their life stories to him also motivated Parks to explore his own youthful memories of poverty and discrimination in his semiautobiographical novel and film The Learning Tree.' - From the DJ flap.…