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Nela on Nostr: Books I love #Bookstr 1. I AM YOU Publication on the exhibition Gordon Parks C/O ...

Books I love

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1. I AM YOU

Publication on the exhibition
Gordon Parks C/O Foundation Berlin

This book has been with me for almost ten years. The pages are a bit worn and faded.

The beautiful, slightly raised prints inside always make me want to run my fingers over them and absorb the images tactilely.

When my best friend and I visited the exhibition "I AM You" at CO Berlin, we couldn't tear our eyes and hearts away from Gordon Parks' photographs. He knew how to stage his photos of the world as he saw it and described them with the same tension as films, combining the drama of his films with the intensity of his photographs.

These historical testimonies have not lost their relevance. He vividly portrayed the lifestyle of Black Americans in the USA between the 1950s and 1970s and was a multi-talented writer, filmmaker, and photographer.
Whether Muhammad Ali, Duke Ellington, Giacometti, a street gangster, or children in the South – Gordon Parks captured them all with the same respect and curiosity.

Gordon Parks follows us through space and time, he does not let us rest, but shakes us up and catapults the warning glances of the past into our present, captured in a beloved book that will never fail to inspire me.




























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