Research Catalog

Title

Half past autumn : a retrospective / Gordon Parks ; essay by Philip Brookman.

Author

Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006.

Publication

Boston : Bulfinch Press ; Washington D.C. : In association with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brookman, Philip
• Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Description

360 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.

Summary

"Accompanies the exhibition organized and held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Sept. 10, 1997 - Jan. 11, 1998, and nine other museums, Feb. 14, 1998 - Dec. 2001."

Subject

• African American photographers > Biography > Exhibitions
• Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006 > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions

Note

• Accompanies the exhibition, organized and held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Sept. 10, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998, and nine other museums, Feb. 14, 1998-Dec. 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-356) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Kansas: the early years -- Photography: the beginning -- Harlem: riot -- Black fighter pilots: racism -- Fashion -- Gang warfare: Harlem -- Europe and the early years at Life -- Color gallery I -- Segregation in the South -- Crime -- Duke Ellington -- Flavio da Silva -- Fontenelle Family -- Civil rights -- Muhammad Ali -- Portrait gallery -- Color gallery II -- Motion pictures -- and the family -- Recent works -- Epilogue -- Unlocked doors: Gordon Parks at the crossroads / Phillip Brookman -- Selected bibliography/filmography.

ISBN

• 0821222988 (hc)
• 0821225030 (pb)

LCCN

^^^97019797^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library