Between the open and the hidden
Clothing, segregation, and the feminine counter-archive in the photographs of Gordon Parks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11416775 |
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| Authors | Kimberly Lamm, Kimberly K Lamm (0000-0002-5189-8290, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | sup1 |
| Pages | 134-149 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Arts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-0046 • E-ISSN: 1992-6049 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02560046.2015.1102266 |
| OpenAlex | W2172473950 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
In this article I analyse the photographs Gordon Parks produced for the Life photo-essay The restraints: open and hidden, which depicts Jim Crow segregation in Mobile, Alabama. Drawing on Jacques Derrida's (1996) attention to the archival unconscious and Hortense Spillers’ (1987) concept of ‘ungendering’, I argue that Parks’ photographs of women's and girls’ clothing manifest his background in fashion photography and highlight the counter- archival pressure black femininity places on Jim Crow segregation and the photo-essay itself
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Clothing · Femininity · Photography · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · History · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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