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Protest Portraits: Black Resistance Stories Through the LensMain MenuProtest Portraits: Black Resistance Stories Through the LensHome PageIntroduction: The Unbridled Chaos Amongst The Cloudy SkiesVernacular Intellectualism and Visionary ArtistryPhoto-Essays as Vernacular TranscriptionA Choice of Weapons: Gordon Parks, Vernacular IntellectualGordon Parks' Vernacular TranscriptionsA New Hope: Devin Allen, Reluctant Photo-ActivistDevin Allen's Vernacular TranscriptionsKyr R. Mackbf4c8caf71b9a35b3a8c7ea0eea323d1d9f0b250
Conclusion: Outlooks Beyond The Mirrorless Lens
12024-03-07T22:36:09-08:00Kyr R. Mackbf4c8caf71b9a35b3a8c7ea0eea323d1d9f0b250440582plain2024-03-08T14:08:52-08:00Kyr R. Mackbf4c8caf71b9a35b3a8c7ea0eea323d1d9f0b250Gordon Parks and Devin Allen’s photography exposes the richness and vibrancy of Black life and experiences that render visible the ideas and histories that help communities relate and participate within cyphers of information exchange. Their vernacular transcription helps to expose the frailty of the American consciousness when the art illustrates how one group is subjected to the terrors of police brutality and abject poverty, in addition to the violent manifestations of whiteness, power and oppression in America. These photographs of protests during the American Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, and more recently during the Black Lives Matter movement, illuminate a long history of Black people’s fight against racism. The photographs in this essay speak to the power of Parks and Allen’s voices as an artist, journalist, and intellectual. Their images certainly serve as documents of specific moments in time; but individually and as a group they also reveal humanity, implore empathy, pose questions, provoke outrage, and even inspire activism. Though taken decades ago, Parks’s photographs capture individuals and represent issues and themes that still resonate deeply with us today. And with Allen’s current work, he works to provide a stage for contemporary issues that catalog the continuing struggle for Black lives, while also fleshing out the tradition of Gordon Parks and others who see the work of photojournalism and activism as an intellectual process of transcription for the Black experience in America.
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