Invisible man : Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem

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Label

Invisible man : Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem

Title remainder

Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem

Statement of responsibility

Michal Raz-Russo ; with contributions by Douglas Druick, Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Matthew S. Witkovsky, John F. Callahan, and Jean-Christophe Cloutier

Title variation

• Gordon Parks
• Ralph Ellison in Harlem

Creator

• Raz-Russo, Michal

Contributor

• Art Institute of Chicago
• Gordon Parks Foundation

Author

• Raz-Russo, Michal

Subject

• African American authors -- Biography | Exhibitions
• African American photographers
• African American photographers -- Biography | Exhibitions
• African Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Pictorial works | Exhibitions
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• Documentary photography
• Documentary photography -- New York (State) | New York -- Exhibitions
• Ellison, Ralph
• 1900-1999
• Ellison, Ralph -- Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogues
• Exhibition, pictorial works
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Relations raciales -- Ouvrages illustrés | Expositions
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Pictorial works | Exhibitions
• History
• Invisible man (Ellison, Ralph)
• Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
• Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Exhibitions
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Pictorial works | Exhibitions
• New York (State) -- New York
• New York (State) -- New York | Harlem
• Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
• Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006 -- Amis et relations -- Expositions
• Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006 -- Exhibitions
• Photographie documentaire -- New York (État) | New York -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Expositions
• Social conditions
• Ellison, Ralph -- Amis et relations -- Expositions
• African American authors

Genre

• Biography
• Exhibition, pictorial works
• Exhibitions
• Expositions
• History
• Ouvrages illustrés
• Pictorial works
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogues

Language

eng

Summary

"It is relatively unknown that the photographer Gordon Parks was close friends with Ralph Ellison, author of the acclaimed 1952 novel Invisible Man. Even less known is the fact that their common vision of racial injustices, coupled with a shared belief in the communicative power of photography, inspired collaboration on two important projects, in 1948 and 1952. Capitalizing on the growing popularity of the picture press, Parks and Ellison first joined forces on an essay titled 'Harlem Is Nowhere' for '48: The Magazine of the Year. Conceived while Ellison was already three years into writing Invisible Man, this illustrated essay was centered on the Lafargue Clinic, the first non-segregated psychiatric clinic in New York City, as a case study for the social and economic conditions in Harlem. He chose Parks to create the accompanying photographs, and during the winter of 1948, the two roamed the streets of Harlem, with Parks photographing under the guidance of Ellison's writing. In 1952 the two collaborated again on 'A Man Becomes Invisible' for the August 25 issue of Life, which promoted Ellison's newly released novel. This is the first publication on Parks' and Ellison's two collaborations, one of which was lost, while the other was published only in reduced form. Gordon Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. In addition to his storied tenures photographing for the Farm Security Administration (1941-45) and Life (1948-72), Parks found success as a film director, introducing Blaxploitation through his film Shaft (1971). Parks died in 2006. Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City in 1913. He enrolled at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute in Macon County, Alabama, as a music major and later turned to writing essays and short stories for publications such as New Masses, The Negro Quarterly, The New Republic and Saturday Review. Invisible Man won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison published two collections of essays: Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986). He died in 1994"--Publisher description

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

779.092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

no index present

LC call number

TR140.P35

LC item number

R39 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs