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Race Stories

Essays on the Power of Images: By Maurice Berger

Maurice Berger Marvin Heiferman Dr. Henry Louis Gates Sarah Lewis

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Aperture
19 December 2024
The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Book Series-featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. Created and coedited by Drs. Sarah Lewis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis, the series reexamines and redresses historical narratives of photography, race, and justice.

Edited by Marvin Heiferman,Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Imagesexamines the transformational role photography plays in shaping ideas and attitudes about race and how photographic images have been instrumental in both perpetuating and combating racial stereotypes. Written between 2012 and 2019 and first presented as a monthly feature on the New York TimesLens blog, Berger's incisive essays help readers see a bigger picture about race through storytelling. 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.
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Imprint:   Aperture
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 241mm,  Width: 167mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9781597115629
ISBN 10:   1597115622
Series:   Vision & Justice
Pages:   272
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Maurice Berger (1956–2020; born in New York) was a cultural historian, curator, and writer, who spent much of his career studying and teaching racial literacy through innovative visual literacy projects. In influential essays, books, and provocative museum exhibitions, Berger gathered and presented compelling photographic images to engage and challenge readers and viewers into reconsidering both cultural and personal assumptions and prejudices. His books include White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (2000) and For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights (2010), which was also one of the premier projects mounted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture. He received honors and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Association of Art Museum Curators, and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and was nominated for an Emmy Award.  Marvin Heiferman is an independent curator, writer, and organizer for projects about photography and visual culture for institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, International Center of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, and the New Museum. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Gagosian Gallery, CNN, Artforum, Design Observer, Aperture, and BOMB. 

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