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Moments without proper names.

Call NumberBMA TR654.P297 1975

Author Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (United States, 1912 - 2006)

Publisher Viking Press

PublishedNew York

Year1975

CitationGordon Parks, Moments Without Proper Names, New York, New York 1975, Non-circulating - 176
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Description

173 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.

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Location

Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Mary Lee Graham Library, main stacks

Objects

Mayor Etienne Périer's Free Wedding Day, 1952

Sick and exhausted from week’s care of the family, Flávio rests on Sunday when his mother is free to look after brothers and sisters. “I am not afraid of death,” he explained earnestly to Parks. “But what will they do after?

Otto von Habsburg's Wedding, France 1951

Dirt is a constant plague — to the spirit, to Ellen’s feet

Monreale Cathedral, Palermo, Sicily

Neighbors

Isabel da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

Mrs. Jefferson

Mrs. Mullens, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1950

Saint Benedict’s Abbey, Atchison, Kansas

Frisco Railway Station

Mother and Child, Blind River, Ontario, 1955

Pool Hall

2017.401

Pastor Ledbetter, from the series Metropolitan Baptist Church

The Cry That Will Be Heard, from the series What I Want, What I Am, What You Force Me to Be Is What You Are

Stove occupies the center of auditorium in Shady Grove School

Black Muslims Rally

Uncle James Parks

Newsman Being Frisked at Muslim Rally in Chicago, Illinois, 1963

Window in Paris

Title unknown (men with railroad car, New York, 1957)

Dirt is a constant plague — to the spirit, to Ellen’s feet

Muhammad Ali at Lord’s Cricket Ground, St. John’s Wood, London, England

Harlem Rally, New York

The da Silva Shack in the Favela of Catacumba, Rio de Janeiro

At the poverty board: Bessie and Kenneth, Little Richard, Norman, Jr. and Ellen

Isabel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

Title unknown, (woman mourner, Paris, France, 1951)

Soapbox Orator, Harlem, New York, 1952

Baptism

Mourner at Marshal Pétain's Funeral, Île d'Yeu, France, 1951

Title unknown, (Flavio's mother, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1961)

Flavio Feeds Zacarias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

Muhammad Ali's fists after match with Henry Cooper, London, England

In the evening their mother shops for the cheapest food she can find

Sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Paris

Title unknown (crowd in Harlem, New York, 1963)

Muhammad Ali

Emerging Man

Fjord, Norway

Show-stoppers of collections were fabulous ball dresses like these Fath designs

The Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1958

Elderly Woman, Paris

Leopard

Group with Straw Hat, Naples, 1965

Reflection of Three Women's Legs, 1951

Harlem Rooftops

Title unknown (newspaper, Harlem, New York, 1963)

In mortuary Red and Herbie Levy study wounds on face of Maurice Gaines, a buddy of theirs who was found dying one night on a Harlem sidewalk.

Muhammad Ali with child

In the shadowy slum into which she was born in Rio de Janeiro, 3-year-old Isabel da Silva cries to herself after vainly seeking comfort from her exhausted father, José.

Flavio amuses smaller brothers and sisters

Bessie and Little Richard the Morning After She Scalded Her Husband

Street Scene

Malcolm X

Untitled

Trapped in abandoned building by a rival gang on street, Red Jackson ponders his next move.

Babe Ruth's Funeral, New York, 1948

Untitled

Title unknown (group of men around table, Paris, France, 1950)

Newt’s mother, Sarah Winger, was the all-pervasive influence in his life. In a long evening walk… she tried to impart to him her deep sense of religion

Home for Da Silva family is hillside jumble of squatters’ huts beneath Rio’s famous statue of Christ.

Muhammad Ali in training, Miami, Florida

Muhammad Ali

The Stranger

Alexander Calder

Flavio da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

Parish Priest (Father Placidus walks in a field of winter wheat with parishioner, Louis Huss)

Blue Girl, Peru

Muhammad Ali

Ghetto Boy

In their home outside Algiers, Parks photographed Cleaver and his wife Kathleen beneath a picture of Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party, who is now in prison for manslaughter, from the series Black Panthers: The Hard Edge of Confrontation

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini in Stromboli, Italy

The family’s day begins at dawn. In the biggest room of the shack — it is 6 x 10 feet — 12-year-old Flávio gets himself up.

Mother and Child, Puerto Rico, 1949

Dead neighbor of Da Silvas lies with vigil candles awaiting burial

Top Woman (Ethel Sharrieff, daughter of Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam)

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