The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
by Gordon Parks
Photographs: Gordon Parks
Text: Nicole Fleetwood, Bryan Stevenson
Publisher: Steidl Verlag
120 pages
Pictures: 90
Year: 2021
ISBN: 978-3-95829-696-1
Comments: Series edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.. Editor: Sarah Hermanson Meister. 25 x 29 cm, Englisch. First edition 03/2021. Second edition 04/2020
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, the first African American to hold this position. Parks 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. The resulting eight-page photo-essay “The Atmosphere of Crime” was noteworthy not only for its bold aesthetic sophistication, but also for how it challenged stereotypes about criminality then pervasive in the mainstream media. They provided a richly-hued, cinematic portrayal of a largely hidden world: that of violence, police work and incarceration, seen with empathy and candor.
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. The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957 includes an expansive selection of never-before-published photographs from Parks’ original reportage.
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Photographs: Gordon Parks
Text: Nicole Fleetwood, Bryan Stevenson
Publisher: Steidl Verlag
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