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Jon Lewis: Photographs of the California Grape Strike de Richard Steven Street

Jon Lewis: Photographs of the California Grape Strike

Autor Richard Steven Street
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 sep 2013
Before the film, César Chavez, Chavez's life was depicted in photographs by his confidant, Jon Lewis.
In the winter of 1966, twenty-eight-year-old ex-marine Jon Lewis visited Delano, California, the center of the California grape strike. He thought he might stay awhile, then resume studying photography at San Francisco State University. He stayed for two years, becoming the United Farm Workers Union’s semiofficial photographer and a close confidant of farmworker leader César Chávez.
Surviving on a picket’s wage of five dollars a week, Lewis photographed twenty-four hours a day and created an insider’s view of the historic and sometimes violent confrontations, mass marches, fasts, picket lines, and boycotts that forced the table-grape industry to sign the first contracts with a farm workers union. Though some of his images were published contemporaneously, most remained unseen. Historian and photographer Richard Steven Street rescues Lewis from obscurity, allowing us for the first time to see a pivotal moment in civil rights history through the lens of a passionate photographer.
A masterpiece of social documentary, this work is at once the biography of a photographer, an exposé of poverty and injustice, and a celebration of the human spirit.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803230484
ISBN-10: 0803230486
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 203 photographs
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 43 mm
Greutate: 1.22 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Richard Steven Street is the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in the Department of American Studies, Princeton University. His photo essays explore the U.S.-Mexico border, homelessness, rural life, and the modern farmworker movement. His award-winning books include Beasts of the Fields, Photographing Farmworkers in California, and Everyone Had Cameras.

Cuprins

Contents
Introduction
1. Epicenter
2. Memory
3. Predecessors
4. Obscurity
5. Marine
6. Ganz
7. Cornucopia
8. Steinbeck
9. Power
10. Fanatics
11. Flies
12. Dispossessed
13. Braceros
14. Pancho
15. Mordida
16. Unions
17. AWOC
18. AFL-CIO
19. Chávez
20. Organizing
21. Huelga!
22. Delano
23. Growers
24. Poverty
25. Welcome
26. Slaves
27. Friendships
28. Photographers
29. Witness
30. Advocates
31. Boycott
32. Zoo
33. Darkroom
34. Routine
35. Lessons
36. Doubts
37. Exhaustion
38. Kennedy
39. March
40. Participating
41. La Causa
42. Blisters
43. Sacrifice
44. St. Mary’s
45. Sacramento
46. Alone
47. Participant
48. DiGiorgio
49. Sweetheart
50. Harvest
51. Altar
52. Fraud
53. Prints
54. Violence
55  Chavarria
56. Rallies
57. Voting
58. August
59. People’s
60. Departure
61. Hock
62. Giumarra
63. School
64. Fast
65. Stranded
66. Book
67. Voice
68. Film
69. Contract
70. Broke
71. Redemption
72. Ubiquitous
73. Impact
74. Decide
75. Parting
Acknowledgements
Notes

Recenzii

“With characteristic erudition, historian Richard Steven Street brings to life the incredible work of Jon Lewis, one of the foremost labor and civil rights photographers of the twentieth century. This book simultaneously captures agricultural California’s most pressing political struggles and the vision of a major, if unrecognized, artist.”—Stephen Pitti, professor of history at Yale University and author of The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans

“Jon Lewis’s magnificent photographs of the farmworker revolution in California evoke comparisons with the work of Dorothea Lange. They bend time past all forgetting to an era of struggle that stands on a par with Selma and Freedom Summer—the bitter fight to dignify Mexican and Filipino labor in the fields. Richard Street, who brought Lewis and his archive back into the light, provides a piercing account that honors both the brilliance of this photographer and the memory of a singular time and place.”—Richard A. Walker, professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of California Agribusiness