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A photographer of note : Arkansas artist Geleve Grice / Robert Cochran.
Van Pelt Library TR140.G735 C63 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cochran, Robert, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grice, Geleve, 1922-.
- Grice, Geleve.
- African American photographers--Arkansas--Biography.
- African American photographers.
- Photographers--Arkansas--Biography.
- Photographers.
- Photography--Arkansas.
- Photography.
- Arkansas.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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 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.
- Contents:
- Beginnings: A Local World 1
- The Big World: 1942-1946 15
- The Life of a Place: 1958-2000 37.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1557287368
- OCLC:
- 50204111
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