A PHOTOGRAPHER OF NOTE : Arkansas Artist Geleve Grice (Arkansas and Regional Studies)

Geleve Grice / Robert Cochran

ISBN 10: 1557287368 / ISBN 13: 9781557287366

Published by The University of Arkansas Press, Feyetteville , Arkanses, 2003

About this Item

1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 2003, Black cloth hardcover with the dust jacket, 277 page book. This scarce copy is signed only by The photographer Geleve Grice ( 1922 - 2004 ) and Robert Cochran the author on the main title page. Illustrated with mostly full page black and white plates by Robert Cochran. Condition : As New Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 061524-J

Bibliographic Details

Title: A PHOTOGRAPHER OF NOTE : Arkansas Artist ...

Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press, Feyetteville , Arkanses

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Robert Cochran

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition.

Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis:

In a selection of more than one hundred black and white images taken over a period of sixty years, this book bears witness to the life of a remarkable photographer and to small-town African American life in the middle of the twentieth century. Geleve Grice was born and raised near Pine Bluff, and he has documented the ordinary life of his community: parades, graduations, weddings, club events, and whatever else brought people together. In the process he has created a remarkable historical portrait of an African American community. Through his lens we glimpse the daily patterns of segregated Pine Bluff, and we also participate in the excitement of greeting extraordinary visitors. Martin Luther King Jr., Mary McLeod Bethune, Harry S. Truman, and others all came through town.

Folklorist Robert Cochran worked with Grice to select these photographs from the thousands he has taken across a lifetime. They organized the work chronologically, reflecting Grice’s early years in small-town Arkansas, his travel as a serviceman in World War II, and his long career in Pine Bluff. Cochran’s accompanying chapters link Grice to the great tradition of American community photographers. He also shows how work for pay-at the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College in Pine Bluff; at the Arkansas State Press daily newspaper; through his own studio-shaped Grice’s work. Cochran shows that Grice not only made his living taking photographs for jobs, but that he also made his own life by making photographs for himself-and now for history.

About the Author:

Geleve Grice has been a commercial photographer in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, for more than sixty years.

Robert Cochran is a professor of English and the director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies at the University of Arkansas. His books include Singing in Zion.