Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images

Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images - Hardcover

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Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images - Hardcover

Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images - Hardcover

by Maurice Berger
$39.95
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Book Overview

by Maurice Berger (Author), Marvin Heiferman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Foreword by)

The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Book Series--featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. Created and coedited by Drs. Sarah Lewis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis, the series reexamines and redresses historical narratives of photography, race, and justice.

Edited by Marvin Heiferman, Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images examines the transformational role photography plays in shaping ideas and attitudes about race and how photographic images have been instrumental in both perpetuating and combating racial stereotypes. Written between 2012 and 2019 and first presented as a monthly feature on the New York Times Lens blog, Berger's incisive essays help readers see a bigger picture about race through storytelling. By directing attention to the most revealing aspects of images, Berger makes complex issues comprehensible, vivid, and engaging. The essays illuminate a range of images, issues, and events: the modern civil rights movement; African American-, Latinx-, Asian American-, and Native American photography; and pivotal moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when race, photography, and visual culture intersected. They also examine the full spectrum of photographic imaging: from amateur to professional pictures, from snapshots to fine art, from mugshots to celebrated icons of photojournalism.

Race Stories collects together Berger's reader-friendly essays in their breadth and brilliance to encourage a broad range of readers to look at and think about photographs in order to better understand themselves and the diverse world around them.

Copublished by Aperture and the New York Times.
Number of Pages: 312
Dimensions: 1.18 x 9.69 x 7.48 IN
Publication Date: December 17, 2024
ISBN9781597115629
Author Maurice Berger
PublisherAperture
GenreArts
FormatHardcover
PublishedDecember 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages312
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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