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Parks embarked on a six-week journey that took him and a journalist through the streets of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Unlike much of his earlier work, the images he captured were in color. The resulting pages photo essay pages “The Atmosphere of Crime, pages was remarkable not only for its bold aesthetic sophistication but also for the way it challenged the stereotypes about crime then prevalent in the mainstream media. Parks rejected the clichés of delinquency, drug use, and corruption, opting instead for a more nuanced vision that reflected the social and economic factors linked to criminal behavior and offered a rare window into the professional lives of those tasked with preventing and prosecuting it. Transcending the romanticism of gangster films, the suspense of crime thrillers, and the racist portrayals of criminality then prevalent in American popular culture, Parks set his camera to do what it does best: capture reality so vividly and convincingly that it would allow readers of Life to see the complexity of these chronically oversimplified situations. The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957 features a wide selection of previously unpublished photographs from Parks’ original photo essay
Published by Steidl, 2020
25 cm 29 cm, 120 pages, in good condition
ISBN 978-3958296961
Parks embarked on a six-week journey that took him and a journalist through the streets of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Unlike much of his earlier work, the images he captured were in color. The resulting pages photo essay pages “The Atmosphere of Crime, pages was remarkable not only for its bold aesthetic sophistication but also for the way it challenged the stereotypes about crime then prevalent in the mainstream media. Parks rejected the clichés of delinquency, drug use, and corruption, opting instead for a more nuanced vision that reflected the social and economic factors linked to criminal behavior and offered a rare window into the professional lives of those tasked with preventing and prosecuting it. Transcending the romanticism of gangster films, the suspense of crime thrillers, and the racist portrayals of criminality then prevalent in American popular culture, Parks set his camera to do what it does best: capture reality so vividly and convincingly that it would allow readers of Life to see the complexity of these chronically oversimplified situations. The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957 features a wide selection of previously unpublished photographs from Parks’ original photo essay
Published by Steidl, 2020
25 cm 29 cm, 120 pages, in good condition
ISBN 978-3958296961
