Haverhill Public Library

The atmosphere of crime, 1957, Gordon Parks ; Sarah Hermanson Meister, [editor] ; with essays by Nicole R. Fleetwood, Bryan Stevenson ; Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., series editor

eng

Includes bibliographical references

contains biographical information

portraitsillustrations

no index present

non fiction

The atmosphere of crime, 1957

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Gordon Parks ; Sarah Hermanson Meister, [editor] ; with essays by Nicole R. Fleetwood, Bryan Stevenson ; Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., series editor

"When Life magazine asked Gordon Parks to illustrate a recurring series of articles on crime in the United States in 1957, he had already been a staff photographer for nearly a decade ... [He] embarked on a six-week journey that took him and a reporter to the streets of New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Unlike much of his prior work, the images made were in color ... Parks rejected clichés of delinquency, drug use, and corruption, opting for a more nuanced view that reflected the social and economic factors tied to criminal behavior and a rare window into the working lives of those charged with preventing and prosecuting it. Transcending the romanticism of the gangster film, the suspense of the crime caper, and the racially biased depictions of criminality then prevalent in American popular culture, Parks coaxed his camera to do what it does best: record reality so vividly and compellingly that it would allow Life's readers to see the complexity of these chronically oversimplified situations"--Dust jacket flap

The lens of Gordon Parks : a different picture of crime in America / Bryan Stevenson -- Policing and the production of crime / Nicole R. Fleetwood -- Framing crime in photographs / Sarah Hermanson Meister -- Life, September 8, 1957 : "Crime in the U.S." and "The atmosphere of crime."

Gordon Parks, the atmosphere of crime, 1957