In September 1956 Life published a photo-essay by Gordon Parks entitled “The
Restraints: Open and Hidden” which documented the everyday activities of one
African American family living in the rural South under Jim Crow segregation.. In
2011, five years after Parks’s death, The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered
more than seventy color transparencies at the bottom of an old storage bin
marked “Segregation Series” that are published for the first time in The
Segregation Story.
Originally commissioned for Life magazine, Parks’ work resulted
in the creation of hundreds of transparencies, representing one
of his earliest social documentary studies on color film, only a
fraction of which had been reproduced.
Gordon Parks
Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. ISBN: 9783869308012 Condition: as new
Hardcover First Edition
120 pages
