Overview
The first title in Aperture’s Vision & Justice Series—featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture.
Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images examines the transformational role photography plays in shaping ideas and attitudes about race and how photographic images have been instrumental in both perpetuating and combatting racial stereotypes. Written between 2012 and 2019 and first presented as a monthly feature on the New York Times’s Lens blog, Berger’s incisive essays help readers see a bigger picture about race through story-telling. By directing attention to the most revealing aspects of images, Berger makes complex issues comprehensible, vivid, and engaging. The essays illuminate a range of images, issues, and events: the modern civil rights movement; African American–, Latinx–, Asian American–, and Native American photography; and pivotal moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when race, photography, and visual culture intersected. They also examine the full spectrum of photographic imaging: from amateur to professional pictures, from snapshots to fine art, from mugshots to celebrated icons of photojournalism.
Race Stories collects together Berger’s reader-friendly essays in their breadth and brilliance to encourage a broad range of readers to look at and think about photographs in order to better understand themselves and the diverse world around them.
Copublished by Aperture and the New York Times.
This book title, Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images (By Maurice Berger), ISBN: 9781597115629, by Maurice Berger, Marvin Heiferman, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Morcos Key, Sarah Lewis, Deborah Willis, published by Aperture (November 12, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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