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TIME OF CHANGE - BRUCE DAVIDSON: CIVIL RIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHS 1961-1965 - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. Foreword by U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Introduction by Deborah Willis. West Hollywood, CA: St. Ann's Press, 2002. First Edition 1/4500. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Acetate Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (172pp), 144 tritone illustrations. Designed by Paul McMenamin at SPINE. Photographed during the height of the American Civil Rights struggle (with most of these images uncollected in book form until this undertaking), Davidson's moving portraits of social change from the rural South to the streets of Harlem and Chicago are a revelation some forty years later. Pictured here are the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, the Freedom Riders, National Guardsmen, Cracker lawmen, Klansmen, and the African-American populace undergoing their "Time of Change". A most handsome example of the 2002 first St. Ann's Press edition (cited on page 223 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally SIGNED "Bruce Davidson" with a crossed-out "11/100" in black ink on the half-title page. 0-9713681-1-2 Inventory Number: 025310