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The first publication of Ernest Cole’s photographs depicting
Black lives in the United States during the turbulent and eventful
late 1960s and early ’70s After the publication of his landmark
1967 book House of Bondage on the horrors of apartheid,
Ernest Cole moved to New York and received a grant from the Ford
Foundation to document Black communities in cities and rural areas
of the United States. He released very few images from this body of
work while he was alive. Thought to be lost entirely, the negatives
of Cole’s American pictures resurfaced in Sweden in 2017. Ernest
Cole photographed extensively in New York City, documenting the
lively community of Harlem, including a thrilling series of color
photographs, as he turned his talent to street photography across
Manhattan. In 1968 Cole traveled to Chicago, Cleveland, Memphis,
Atlanta, and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas of the South,
capturing the mood of different Black communities in the months
leading up to and just after the assassination of Martin Luther
King Jr. The pictures both reflect a newfound hope and freedom that
Cole felt in America, and an incisive eye for inequality as he
became increasingly disillusioned by the systemic racism he
witnessed. This treasure trove of rediscovered work provides an
important window into American society and redefines Cole’s
oeuvre, presenting a fuller picture of the life and work of a man
who fled South Africa and exposed life under apartheid to the
world.
The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated
documentary film In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist
James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America
through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers,
Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be
completed. In his documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck
imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to
create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United
States - then, and today. 'Thrilling . . . A portrait of one man's
confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put
it, "devastated my universe"' The New York Times 'Baldwin's voice
speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prose-poet of our
injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his
scalding eloquence' Variety 'A cinematic seance . . . One of the
best movies about the civil rights era ever made' Guardian 'I Am
Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet' Rolling Stone
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