First Steidl edition of Segregation Story by Gordon Parks (2014)

First impression

Large format hardback in near fine condition

Some wear and slight toning to extremities of dust jacket, now in a removable protective sleeve

Please note there is a soft bump to side of book that has affected both boards and the dust jacket

Some very slight toning to extremities of pages

Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm

About

After the photographs were first presented in a 1956 issue ofLifemagazine, the bulk of Parks’ assignment was thought to be lost. In 2011, five years after Parks’ death, the Gordon Parks Foundation found more than 200 color transparencies belonging to the series. In 2014 the series was first published as a book, and since then new photographs have been uncovered.
In the summer of 1956,Lifemagazine sent Gordon Parks to Alabama to document the daily realities of African Americans living under Jim Crow laws in the rural South. The resulting color photographs are among Parks’ most powerful images, and, in the decades since, have become emblematic representations of race relations in America. Pursued at grave danger to the photographer himself, the project was an important chapter in Parks’ career-long endeavor to use the camera as a weapon for social change.