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Spider Martin - Selma 1965: The Photographs of Spider Martin - 9781477308394 - V9781477308394
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Selma 1965: The Photographs of Spider Martin

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Description for Selma 1965: The Photographs of Spider Martin Hardback. "Dolph Briscoe Center for American History." Num Pages: 128 pages, 80 duotone photos. BIC Classification: AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 251 x 509. Weight in Grams: 993.

“Spider Martin, more than any other photographer of our time, has used his camera to document the struggle for civil rights and social change in the State of Alabama. . . . In viewing Spider’s collection, one is literally walking through the pages of American history.”
—John Lewis, 1996

“It is largely because of [Martin’s] talent that we, as a people and a nation, so vividly remember ‘Bloody Sunday.’ Although violence broke out at many other places, and on many other days, the images from this critical day are forever emblazoned in the public consciousness.”
—Andrew Young, 1992

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Spider Martin captured many indelible images of Bloody Sunday as a photojournalist for the Birmingham News. His photographs of the Selma marches and the civil rights struggle were seen all over the world, appearing in such publications as Time, Life, Der Spiegel, Stern, the Saturday Evening Post, and Paris Match. Drawn from Martin’s archive at the Briscoe Center for American History, this book gathers several dozen of the most powerful and poignant images, many of which have never been published, for the first time in a single volume. A lasting testament to the courage of the civil rights generation, they also reveal a rookie photographer’s determination to bear witness to a movement that transformed the American nation.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477308394
SKU
V9781477308394
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Spider Martin
James “Spider” Martin (1939–2003) created the most comprehensive visual documentation of the March 1965 events in Selma, one of the most significant moments in the civil rights era. During the three years he worked for the Birmingham News, his photographs won numerous awards, including Associated Press awards for Best Feature Photograph, Best Sports Photograph, and Best News Photograph. He spent ... Read more

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