Facing Black Star by Thierry Gervais - ISBN: 9780262047845
Hardcover
Unlock a photo agency’s secrets: history, power, and unseen stories await.

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  • Hardcover

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    18 July 2023

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Summary

The Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: expectations, challenges, and results of a decade of research in a key photo agency’s print collection.

In 2005, Toronto Metropolitan University acquired the massive Black Star Collection of the photo agency previously based in New York City—nearly 292,000 black-and-white prints. Preserved at The Image Centre at TMU, the images include iconic stills of the American Civil Rights movement by Charles Moore, among thousands of ordinary photog…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262047845
ISBN-10:0262047845
Author:Thierry Gervais, Vincent Lavoie
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:18 July 2023
Weight:1.04kg
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm
Series:RIC BOOKS (Ryerson Image Centre Books)
About The Author

Thierry Gervais

Thierry Gervais is Associate Professor at the School of Image Arts and Head of Research at The Image Centre, both at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author, with Gaelle Morel, of The Making of Visual News- A History of Photography in the Press, and the series editor of RIC Books, which he launched in 2016.

Vincent Lavoie is Professor of Art History at University of Quebec and a member of Figura Research Center, both in Montreal, QC. He is the author of Photojournalismes- Revoir les canons de l’image de presse and L’Affaire Capa- Le proc s d’une ic ne and the editor of La preuve par l’image.

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