THEA 12000: Theatrical Design

Since her death in 2009, Vivian Maier has become a photographic phenomenon. Her story, thousands of photo negatives and prints found in a storage locker and sold for pennies at auction;has stirred millions around the world. Maier was a painfully private woman who now speaks powerfully through the photographs she took only for herself.

Presenting her breathtaking photographs alongside interviews with those who knew her best, this volume is the first attempt to put Vivian Maier's work in context and create a moving portrait of her as an artist. Though she created more than 10,000 negatives during her lifetime, only a few of them were ever seen by others.

The definitive monograph of American photographer Vivian Maier, exploring the full range and brilliance of her work and the mystery of her life, written and edited by noted photography curator and writer Marvin Heiferman; featuring 250 black-and-white images, color work, and other materials never seen before

The Sweet Flypaper of Life is a _poem_ about ordinary people, about teenagers around a jukebox, about children at an open fire hydrant, about riding the subway alone at night, about picket lines and artist work spaces. This renowned, life-affirming collaboration between artist Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes honors in words and pictures what the authors saw, knew, and felt deeply about life in their city. Hughes_s heart-warming description of Harlem in the late 1940s and early 1950s is seen through the eyes of one grandmother, Sister Mary Bradley. We experience the sights and sounds of Harlem as seen through her learned and worldly eyes, expressed here through Hughes_s poetic prose. As she states, _I done got my feet caught in the sweet flypaper of life and I_ll be dogged if I want to get loose._ DeCarava_s photographs lay open a world of sense and feeling that begins with his perception and vision. The ruminations go beyond the limit of simple observation and contend with deeper meanings to reveal these individuals as subjects worthy of art.

Margaret Bourke-White -- James Burke -- Robert Capa -- Cornell Capa -- Edward Clark -- Ralph Crane -- Loomis Dean -- John Dominis -- Alfred Eisenstaedt -- Eliot Elisofon -- J. R. Eyerman -- N. R. Farbman -- Andreas Feininger -- Albert Fenn -- Fritz Goro -- Allan Grant -- Yale Joel -- Mark Kauffman -- Robert W. Kelley -- Dmitri Kessel -- Wallace Kirkland -- Lisa Larsen -- Nina Leen -- Thomas McAvoy -- Leonard McCombe -- Francis Miller -- Ralph Morse -- Carl Mydans -- Gordon Parks -- Michael Rougier -- Walter Sanders -- Frank J. Scherschel -- Joe Scherschel -- Paul Schutzer -- George Silk -- Howard Sochurek -- Peter Stackpole -- Grey Villet -- Hank Walker -- James Whitmore -- About technique.

The Self in Black and White is a fascinating and original study of the ways in which notions about race and the self were formed, perpetuated, and contested in American photography during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, with an emphasis on images of the civil rights movement and the War on Poverty.

In September 1956 Life published a photo-essay by Gordon Parks entitled "The Restraints: Open and Hidden" which documented the everyday activities and rituals of one extended African American family living in the rural South under Jim Crow segregation. One of the most powerful photographs depicts Joanne Thornton Wilson and her niece, Shirley Anne Kirksey standing in front of a theater in Mobile, Alabama, an image which became a forceful "weapon of choice," as Parks would say, in the struggle against racism and segregation.