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Chicago's South Side, 1946-1948 (Series in Contemporary Photography)
Miller, Wayne F. (Photographer); Schell, Orville; Parks, Gordon & Stepto, Robert B. (Contributors)
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good in a Very Good jacket; previous owner's to the front endpaper; 1/2 in tear to the rear top edge of the jacket; else clean and unmarked. Miller "won two consecutive Guggenheim fellowships in 1946-1948, with which he worked on The Way of Life… of the Northern Negro. These images were published in his book Chicago's South Side, 1946-1948. This project documented the wartime migration of African Americans northward, specifically looking at the black community on the south side of Chicago, covering all the emotions in daily life. The people depicted are mostly ordinary people, but some celebrities appear, such as Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Paul Robeson.The Wayne Miller Archive is held at the Center for Creative Photography (University of Arizona). MIller's work is also held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; the Smart Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture."--from Wikipedia.Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Booksellers Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility. Wayne F. Miller (illustrator).
CHICAGO'S SOUTHSIDE 1946-1948: PHOTOGRAPHS BY WAYNE F. MILLER - Rare Pristine Copy of The Limited Slipcased Edition: Signed by Wayne F. Miller - ONLY COPY ONLINE
Miller, Wayne F. (Photographer); Schell, Orville; Parks, Gordon & Stepto, Robert B. (Contributors)
Published by Berkeley, CA: University Of California Press/Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2000
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 112 pages. Published in 2000. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most important American photography books of our time. Limited Slipcased Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Pu…blished in a one-time-only print run of 75 copies. None of the copies was commercially sold. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by The Stephen Daiter Gallery: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Wayne F. Miller. Texts by the great American journalist Orville Schell, the great African-American photographer Gordon Parks, and Curator Robert B. Stepto. Elegant hand-made slipcase with black titles pasted on the spine. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Hong Kong to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. The DJ is covered in the publisher's protective glassine sheet. Presents, in its Limited Slipcased Edition, Wayne F. Miller's "Chicago's Southside 1946-1948". The most collectible edition of the inaugural volume of the American Contemporary Photography Series of the University of California's School of Journalism. "Chronicles a black Chicago: The South Side community that burgeoned as thousands of African-Americans, exclusively from the South, settled in the city during the Great Migration. Provides a visual history of Chicago at the height of its industrial order, when the stockyards, steel mills, and factories were booming. More important, they capture the intimate moments in the daily lives of ordinary people. Miller was adept at becoming invisible, and his photographs are full of naked, disarming emotion. One of the first Western photographers to document the destruction of Hiroshima and the survivors of the bombing, Wayne F. Miller had just returned from his stint as a World War II Navy combat photographer under the direction of Edward Steichen when he received two concurrent Guggenheim Fellowships to fund his Chicago project. In addition to affording a glimpse into the hopes and hardships shared by a community of migrants, the images reflect the enormous variety of human experiences and emotions that occurred at a unique time and place in the American landscape. A superb testament to the genius of the photographer, to the spirit of the people the images portray, and to the moment in American history these photographs capture" (Publisher's blurb). Rightly or wrongly, Wayne F. Miller will probably always be remembered as Edward Steichen's Associate Curator for "The Family of Man" Exhibition because the latter remains the single most influential photographic exhibition ever mounted in the medium's history. It showed eight - a staggering number for one artist - of Miller's photographs. An absolute "must-have" title for Wayne F. Miller collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Slipcased Edition. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Wayne F. Miller. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Limited Slipcased Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with photographic plates. One of the finest American photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WAYNE F. MILLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0520223160. Signed by Author.
