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American Gothic : Gordon Parks and Ella Watson
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- Creator
- edited by Casey Riley and Philip Brookman ; with essays by Philip Brookman, Melanee C. Harvey, Casey Riley, Hank Willis Thomas, Salamishah Tillet, Deborah Willis ; series editor, Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Riley, Casey (Curator) editor, writer of added text, curator
- Brookman, Philip, editor, writer of added text
- Harvey, Melanee C., writer of added text
- Thomas, Hank Willis, 1976- writer of added text
- Willis, Deborah, 1948- writer of added text
- Luber, Katherine Crawford, 1961- writer of foreword
- Kunhardt, Peter W., Jr., 1982- editor, writer of added text
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Gordon Parks Foundation
- Publication
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- First edition
- Göttingen, Germany : Steidl [in cooperation with] The Gordon Parks Foundation [and] Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2023
- ©2024
- Physical Details
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- 189 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 cm
- ISBNs
- 9783969992517, 3969992516
- OCLC
- on1418850158
- Catalog from an exhibition held at Minneapolis Institute of Art, January 6-June 23, 2024.
- Foreword by Dr. Katherine Crawford Luber and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.
- "'American Gothic', Gordon Parks' 1942 portrait of government worker Ella Watson, is among the most celebrated photographs of the twentieth century. Created as part of an extensive collaboration between the photographer and his subject, it is at once a record of one woman's position within the racial, professional and economic hierarchies that stratified the nation's capital and Parks' visual reckoning with the realities of living in racially segregated Washington, D.C. Through his work with Watson--a custodian in the government building where he worked--Parks composed an intimate portrait of Black life by focusing on everyday activities, from work routines to family meals and church services. The resulting photographs trace a remarkably intimate portrait of Watson as a multidimensional figure, cherished by her community and vitally important within the civic sphere. American Gothic. 'Gordon Parks and Ella Watson' provides a comprehensive overview of this pivotal series of photographs, including more than 50 images, some never published before, and additional archival material."--Front flap of dusk jacket.
Subjects
- Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006 -- Exhibitions.
- Watson, Ella, 1883-1980 -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
- Women cleaning personnel -- Washington (D.C.) -- 20th century -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
- Janitors -- Washington (D.C.) -- 20th century -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
- Civil service -- Washington (D.C.) -- 20th century -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
- African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
- African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
- African Americans -- Segregation -- United States -- 20th century -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
- African American women -- United States -- 20th century -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
- Occupational segregation -- United States -- 20th century -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
- African Americans in art -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
- African American photographers -- United States -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
- Documentary photography -- United States -- Exhibitions.
- Photography -- Social aspects -- Exhibitions.
- Portrait photography -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.