Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement silas-finch february 2007

february 2007

Deborah Luster creates a compelling portrait in the form of a photographic archive of contemporary and historic homicide sites

This splendid large format book is a graphic tour de force presentation of these fine photographs

66 duotone plates

The evocative images and poems collected in Eros & Thanatos conjure memories of love and loss

Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement silas-finch february 2007In the summer of 1962, Danny Lyon packed a Nikon Reflex and an old Leica in an army bag and hitchhiked south. Within a week he was in jail in Albany, Georgia, looking through the bars at another prisoner, Martin Luther King Jr. Lyon soon became the first staff photographer for the Atlanta based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which already had a reputation as one of the most committed and confrontational groups fighting for civil