Gordon Parks : Stokely Carmichael and Black power / Lisa Volpe ; with an essay by Cedric Johnson.

Gordon Parks' 1967 Life magazine essay "Whip of Black Power" is a profile of the young civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Carmichael gained national attention and inspired media backlash when he issued the call for Black Power in Gre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Volpe, Lisa (Author)
Corporate Authors: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Issuing body, Publisher, Organizer, Host institution)
Gordon Parks Foundation (Publisher)
Steidl Verlag (Publisher, Printer)
Other Authors: Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006 (Artist, Photographer)
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998
Johnson, Cedric, 1971- (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Tinterow, Gary (writer of foreword.)
Kunhardt, Peter W., Jr., 1982- (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Göttingen, Germany : Pleasantville, New York : Houston, Texas : Steidl ; The Gordon Parks Foundation ; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Parks, Gordon, > 1912-2006 > Exhibitions.
Parks, Gordon, > 1912-2006 > Criticism and interpretation.
Parks, Gordon, > 1912-2006 > Friends and associates.
Carmichael, Stokely, > 1941-1998 > Portraits > Exhibitions.
Carmichael, Stokely, > 1941-1998 > Friends and associates.
Black power > United States > 20th century > Pictorial works.
African Americans > Civil rights > 20th century > Pictorial works.
Documentary photography > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions.
African Americans in art > 20th century > Exhibitions.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs.
Carmichael, Stokely, > 1941-1998.
Parks, Gordon, > 1912-2006.
African Americans in art.
Documentary photography.
Friendship.
United States.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Portraits
Pictorial works.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:173 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 30 cm
Variant Title:
Stokely Carmichael and Black power
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Gary Tinterow and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.
  • Black power and acts of love / Lisa Volpe
  • Luminous exposures: Gordon Parks, Stokely Carmichael, and the birth of black politics / Cedric Johnson
  • Plates
  • "What we want," 1966 / Stokely Carmichael
  • "Stokely Carmichael," 1967 / Gordon Parks
  • "Whip of black power," Life Magazine, May 19, 1967.