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Titolo: | This light of ours [[electronic resource] ] : activist photographers of the civil rights movement / / edited by Leslie G. Kelen ; essays by Julian Bond, Clayborne Carson, and Matt Herron ; text by Charles E. Cobb, Jr |
Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.800973 |
Soggetto topico: | African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century |
Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century | |
Photographers - Political activity - United States - History - 20th century | |
Political activists - United States - History - 20th century | |
Photographers - United States | |
Political activists - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations History 20th century Pictorial works |
Southern States Race relations History 20th century Pictorial works | |
Altri autori: | KelenLeslie G. <1949-> BondJulian <1940-2015.> CarsonClayborne <1944-> HerronMatt <1931-2020.> CobbCharles E., Jr. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-246) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Photographing civil rights / Matt Herron -- Photographs -- pt. 1. Black life -- pt. 2. Organizing for freedom -- pt. 3. State and local terror -- pt. 4. Meredith march against fear and Black power -- How I first saw King and found the movement / Clayborne Carson -- The photographers : interviews and biographies -- Tamio Wakayama -- Herbert Randall -- Maria Varela -- George Ballis -- Bob Fitch -- Matt Herron -- Bob Fletcher -- David Prince -- Bob Adelman. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers-men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based disenfranchisement from within the movement. Unlike images produced by photojournalists, who covered breaking news events, these photographers lived within the movement-primarily within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) framework-and documented its activities by focusing on the |
Titolo autorizzato: | This light of ours |
ISBN: | 1-282-11189-2 |
9786613804082 | |
1-61703-172-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818153403321 |
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