PUBLISHER
Steidl

BOOK FORMAT
Slip, clth, 5 vols, 10.5 x 12 in. / 1084 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/30/2012
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 14   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783869305301 TRADE
List Price: $185.00 CAD $250.00

AVAILABILITY
Out of stock

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/1/2014

Gordon Parks: Collected Works

"By the time I went to college in the late sixties, Parks was an international celebrity. Everyone knew his work, his name, his elegant style. He was a veritable Jackie Robinson of the creative arts, a towering inspiration. Everyone in my generation grew up with his photos in Life magazine. And every African-American knew that one of Life's staff photographers as a black man. It was quite difficult for me to believe—growing up in a segregated neighborhood in a small ton in West Virginia—that the man who as taking these photographs in Life was a black man, thriving as an artist on the staff of the most important repository of photojournalism in American society in the fifties and sixties. My mother was a constant inspiration to my brother and me, telling us that the path to success was an education and a profession. She wanted us to be doctors or lawyers. All the mothers I knew wanted that for their kids. And they were right. It was a path to success. But Gordon Parks showed that there as another path: through photography, through journalism. You could be a black artist and be successful. There were virtually none then. There are not enough now. Parks was the pioneer who showed the way. And with a legacy of tens of thousands of photographs that record his unique vision, he continues to do so." Excerpt of essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and featured image, "Camp Buddies, Haverstraw, New York" (1943) are reproduced from STEIDL/The Gordon Parks Foundation magnificent five volume, five decade survey, Gordon Parks: Collected Works, releasing today from ARTBOOK | D.A.P. continue to blog

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/16/2015

Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott

"Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan" (1950) is reproduced in two remarkable publications by STEIDL. One is the monumental, 5-volume, slipcased Gordon Parks: Collected Works, and the other is the remarkable forthcoming Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott, published to accompany the current exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "A year after Life hired him, the magazine sent Parks back to Fort Scott, Kansas, where he had spent his first sixteen years attending the town's small segregated schools. His assignment was to find the eleven members of his junior high school graduation class and discover what had become of them in the ore than twenty years that had elapsed since his departure." continue to blog

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/7/2016

Muhammad Ali, Photographed by Gordon Parks

In the spring of 1966, celebrated African-American photographer Gordon Parks traveled to Miami and London to document boxing legend-in-the-making Muhammad Ali—at a time when Ali was under intense critical scrutiny for his outspoken positions on race and the Vietnam war, among other perceived transgressions. Parks published the iconic resulting photographs—alongside an intimate, searching six-spread personal essay on his relationship with the "brash, poetry-spouting kid" he had come to admire—in the September 9 issue of LIFE magazine. These photographs, and a facsimile reproduction of the entire published photo essay, are collected in Steidl's magnificent, five-volume boxed set, Gordon Parks: Collected Works. continue to blog