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The Movement. by Lorraine HANSBERR

Creator: Lorraine HANSBERR
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
(LYON, Danny et al.) HANSBERRY, Lorraine.

The Movement.
Documentary of a Struggle for Equality.

Stock Code 115109
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1964

Current price$1,560.00
An important photographic study of the civil rights movement prepared with the cooperation and assistance of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the movement's youth wing.
The majority of the photographs are by Danny Lyon, who spent two years photographing SNCC activists and demonstrations, initially whilst still a history major at the University of Chicago, and then after graduation in 1963 as the SNCC's first staff photographer. Lyon remained in this role until mid-1964, when fraught internal politics and his own ambitions meant it was time to move on. Julian Bond, who helped establish the SNCC, describes Danny Lyon's photographs as '[helping] to make the movement move.' Lyon referred to his work as a photographer as 'the existential struggle to be free.'
Additional photographs are by Bob Adelman, Don Charles, Frank Dandridge, Roy DeCarava, William DuBois, James Forman, Robert Frank, Declan Haun, David Heath, Matt Herron, Jill Krementz, Leroy McLucas, Norris McNamara, Marion Palfi, Tony Rollo, Enrico Sarsini, F. Joseph Spieler, and Kenneth Thompson. The text is by Lorraine Hansberry, whose play A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway in 1959.

First edition; 4to (258 x 210 mm, 10¼ x 8¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, edges toned, light crease to first page; plain endpapers, quarter white cloth, black paper-covered boards, titles to spine and upper side in black, light sunning to edges, light shelfwear, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, text in white, black, and red, light sunning to spine, wear to extremities, chipping to head, several short tears and small chips, a very good copy; 128pp.

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	1950-1979
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Modern
Dealer Reference #:	115109
Incollect Reference #:	775098

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