Facing Black Star /

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Author / Creator:	Gervais, Thierry, editor.
Imprint:	Toronto : The Image Centre, [2023] Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2023] ©2023
Description:	347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Black Star (Picture agency) Black Star (Picture agency) Libraries -- Special collections -- Images, Photographic. Photojournalism. Libraries -- Special collections -- Images, Photographic. Photojournalism.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13349236

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Other authors / contributors:	Gervais, Thierry, editor. Lavoie, Vincent, editor. Image Centre (Toronto Metropolitan University), publisher.
ISBN:	0262047845 9780262047845
Summary:	In 2005, Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson) University (TMU) acquired the massive collection Black Star Collection of the photo agency previously based in New York City--nearly 292,000 black-and-white prints. Preserved at The Image Centre at TMU, the images include iconic stills of the American Civil Rights movement by Charles Moore, among thousands of ordinary photographs that were classified by theme in the agency's picture library. While the move of the collection from a corporate photo agency to a public cultural institution enables more access, researchers must still face the size of the collection, its structural organization, the materiality of the prints, and the lack of ephemera. Facing Black Star aims to fruitfully highlight this tension between research expectations and challenges.

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