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PUBLISHER
Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation/National Gallery of Art

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 304 pgs / 42 color / 126 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 16   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783958294943 TRADE
List Price: $65.00 CDN $92.00

AVAILABILITY
Out of stock

TERRITORY
NA ONLY

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art, 11/04/18–02/18/19

Andover, MA
Addison Gallery of Art, 02/01/19–04/26/20

Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, 03/16/19–06/09/19

Fort Worth, TX
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 08/31/19–12/29/19

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STEIDL/GORDON PARKS FOUNDATION/NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

Gordon Parks: The New Tide

Early Work 1940–1950

Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip Brookman. Foreword by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Earl A. Powell III. Introduction by Sarah Lewis. Text by Maurice Berger, Philip Brookman, Richard J. Powell, Deborah Willis.

Gordon Parks: The New Tide

The emergence of a social conscience in rarely seen images from Parks' formative years

Focusing on new research and access to forgotten pictures, The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 documents the importance of these years in shaping Gordon Parks' passionate vision. The book brings together photographs and publications made during the first and most formative decade of his 65-year career.

During the 1940s Parks' photographic ambitions grew to express a profound understanding of his cultural and political experiences. From the first photographs he published in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and his relationship to the Chicago Black Renaissance, to his mentorship with Roy Stryker and his breakthrough work for America's influential picture magazines—including Ebony and Life—this book traces Parks' rapid evolution from an accomplished, self-taught practitioner to a groundbreaking artistic and journalistic voice.


Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. An itinerant laborer, he worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself and becoming a photographer. During his storied tenures photographing for the Farm Security Administration (1941–45) and Life magazine (1948–72), Parks evolved into a modern-day Renaissance man, finding success as a film director, writer and composer. The first African American director to helm a major motion picture, he helped launch the blaxploitation genre with his film Shaft (1971). He wrote numerous memoirs, novels and books of poetry, and received many awards, including the National Medal of Arts, and more than 50 honorary degrees. Parks died in 2006.

"Boy in Doorway" (1941/42) is reproduced from 'Gordon Parks: The New Tide.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

New York Times

Maurice Berger

Gordon Parks — perhaps more than any artist — saw poverty as “the most savage of all human afflictions” and realized the power of empathy to help us understand it.

New York Times

James Estrin

A new book examines Gordon Parks’s transformation over the formative decade before his time as the first black staff photographer at Life magazine.

AnOther Magazine

Miss Rosen

[Gordon Parks: The New Tide] looks back at the groundbreaking first decade of his career, during which he rose to become the first African-American photographer at LIFE magazine.

PDN

A new exhibition and a companion catalogue, published by Steidl, looks at ten formative years in Parks’s career that laid the foundation for his creative output in social documentary, fashion photography, fiction and memoir.

Globe and Mail

Charts the evolution and social conscience formed in the breakthrough early years of Gordon Parks’s seven-decade career.

New York Times Magazine

Teju Cole

The catalog is as accomplished for the photographs it reprints as it is for its many fine essays on Parks, including those by Maurice Berger, Sarah Lewis, Deborah Willis and Philip Brookman, which contextualize Parks with the writers who mattered to him, Langston Hughes and Richard Wright among them.

Guardian

The early work of ground-breaking photojournalist Gordon Parks.

Boston Globe

Mark Feeney

In both subject and style, the work is vigorously exploratory and various.

Gordon Parks: The New Tide

STATUS: Out of stock

Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/11/2018

Holiday Gift Staff Pick 'The New Tide' presents Gordon Parks' early work, 1940–1950

Holiday Gift Staff Pick 'The New Tide' presents Gordon Parks' early work, 1940–1950

Best known for his searing LIFE magazine documentary photo essays on poverty and American civil rights, photographer, filmmaker, writer and musician Gordon Parks was also one of the twentieth century's great fashion photographers. Reproduced from The New Tide—published to accompany the National Gallery of Art's current exhibition—this photograph of Parks' wife, Sally Alvis Parks, a model and hat designer, was shot for the cover of the December 1947 Christmas issue of Chicago-based Circuit's Smart Woman magazine. Geared toward an African-American audience, Smart Woman was "designed to attract the new, postwar woman. [It was] intelligent, sharp, consumer-conscious, and geared to self-representation through fashion." See our complete 2018 Holiday Gift Guide here! continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/22/2019

The work of Gordon Parks is, in fact, a celebration of Black History

The work of Gordon Parks is, in fact, a celebration of Black History

Featured image, “Charles White in front of his mural, ‘Chaos of the American Negro’” (1941), is reproduced from Gordon Parks: The New Tide, a collection of more than 150 early works by the irrepressible African-American photographer, filmmaker and composer. Other portraits include Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt, in addition to a variety of American workers, society figures, fashion models and anonymous poor. This remarkable volume includes a wealth of archival materials, including letters, fellowship applications, magazine work, historical photographs from Parks’s early life and scholarly essays by such esteemed contributors as Philip Brookman, Sarah Lewis, Richard J. Powell, Deborah Willis and Maurice Berger, who quotes Parks: “I chose my camera as a weapon against all the things I dislike about America—poverty, racism, discrimination.” continue to blog


GORDON PARKS MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Gordon Parks: Born Black

GORDON PARKS: BORN BLACK

Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation

ISBN: 9783969992289
USD $65.00
| CAN $88

Pub Date: 5/7/2024
Forthcoming


Gordon Parks: American Gothic

GORDON PARKS: AMERICAN GOTHIC

Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation/Minneapolis Institute of Art

ISBN: 9783969992517
USD $65.00
| CAN $95

Pub Date: 4/23/2024
Forthcoming


Gordon Parks: Stokely Carmichael and Black Power

GORDON PARKS: STOKELY CARMICHAEL AND BLACK POWER

Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation/Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

ISBN: 9783969990940
USD $50.00
| CAN $68

Pub Date: 9/27/2022
Active | In stock


Gordon Parks: Segregation Story

GORDON PARKS: SEGREGATION STORY

Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation

ISBN: 9783969990261
USD $65.00
| CAN $88

Pub Date: 9/27/2022
Active | In stock


Gordon Parks: Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/46

GORDON PARKS: PITTSBURGH GREASE PLANT, 1944/46

Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation/Carnegie Museum of Art

ISBN: 9783969990056
USD $65.00
| CAN $88

Pub Date: 6/28/2022
Active | In stock


Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957

GORDON PARKS: THE ATMOSPHERE OF CRIME, 1957

Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation

ISBN: 9783958296961
USD $50.00
| CAN $65

Pub Date: 6/16/2020
Active | Out of stock


Gordon Parks: Muhammad Ali

GORDON PARKS: MUHAMMAD ALI

Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation/The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

ISBN: 9783958296190
USD $55.00
| CAN $75

Pub Date: 2/11/2020
Active | Out of stock


Gordon Parks: The New Tide

GORDON PARKS: THE NEW TIDE

Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation/National Gallery of Art

ISBN: 9783958294943
USD $65.00
| CAN $92

Pub Date: 11/20/2018
Active | Out of stock


Gordon Parks: The Flavio Story

GORDON PARKS: THE FLAVIO STORY

Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation

ISBN: 9783958293441
USD $65.00
| CAN $87

Pub Date: 5/22/2018
Active | Out of stock


Gordon Parks: I Am You

GORDON PARKS: I AM YOU

Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation/C/O Berlin

ISBN: 9783958291829
USD $50.00
| CAN $67.5

Pub Date: 11/22/2016
Active | Out of stock


Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem

INVISIBLE MAN: GORDON PARKS AND RALPH ELLISON IN HARLEM

Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation/The Art Institute of Chicago

ISBN: 9783958291096
USD $45.00
| CAN $60

Pub Date: 6/28/2016
Active | Out of stock


Gordon Parks: Collected Works

GORDON PARKS: COLLECTED WORKS

Steidl

ISBN: 9783869305301
USD $185.00
| CAN $250

Pub Date: 11/30/2012
Active | Out of stock


Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument

GORDON PARKS: THE MAKING OF AN ARGUMENT

Steidl

ISBN: 9783869307213
USD $40.00
| CAN $54

Pub Date: 10/1/2013
Active | Out of stock


Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family

GORDON PARKS: A HARLEM FAMILY

Steidl

ISBN: 9783869306025
USD $40.00
| CAN $54

Pub Date: 1/15/2013
Active | Out of stock