Eugene Richards first came to the southeastern part of Arkansas--the so-called Delta--in 1968 as a VISTA volunteer. After nearly two years in that organization working to set up a daycare center and recreation programs, he and some of his associates in it left to found RESPECT Inc., a private social-action program providing paralegal services, publishing a community newspaper, and distributing food and clothing in West Memphis (across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee).As he lived and became increasingly ...
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Eugene Richards first came to the southeastern part of Arkansas--the so-called Delta--in 1968 as a VISTA volunteer. After nearly two years in that organization working to set up a daycare center and recreation programs, he and some of his associates in it left to found RESPECT Inc., a private social-action program providing paralegal services, publishing a community newspaper, and distributing food and clothing in West Memphis (across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee).As he lived and became increasingly involved in the black community, Richards, a skilled photographer, began to use his camera to record what he observed--not only the poverty and suffering of these people but also their laughter, contemplation, and triumphs. His subjects range from children at play to an African-style wedding to scenes of work and home life. Death, religion, and imprisonment are major elements of Delta existence, and so of these photos.The 110 photographs collected here express the quality of life in a part of the South where 60 percent of the black families barely earn $2000 a year, and 70 percent of the dwellings are deteriorated and without plumbing. Richards' camera catches the cotton compresses, the cement mill, the broken fields and small cafes, Logan the mortician, the two blind brothers Willy and Isaiah McCowan, and the Reverend Ezra Greer at the state capitol in Little Rock, while his few but carefully chosen words complement these images. Together they hold the people and the place in a world that Richards feels "slipping by, while I merely observed its disappearance."I feared being only eyes, only a cameraman," he says, but through his camera his eyes become ours, and the power of his feelings, ours too.
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Add this copy of Few Comforts Or Surprises: the Arkansas Delta to cart. $64.84, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1973 by MIT Press (MA).
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Good. Size: 10x8x0; There are no damages or markings inside the book. Some spine wear including a small dent on the bottom of the spine, and some sun exposure to the cover but in good condition overall! ! Pictures upon request!
Add this copy of Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta to cart. $79.95, good condition, Sold by Outside of a Dog Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BUCKSPORT, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1973 by MIT Press (MA).
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Author. Very Good in Good jacket. Book 1973 Hardcover with illustrated boards, with the as same dust jacket, 123 page book. Illustrated with black & white full page plates by Eugene Richards. Condition: Very Good with ex-owners name penned on the inside front board. With edge rubs and bumps with aging. Dust jacket is good with repairs a with tape over on the bottom spine and price clipped. Size: 4to-over 9¾-12" tall.
Add this copy of Few Comforts Or Surprises: the Arkansas Delta to cart. $119.93, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by MIT Press (MA).
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Good. Cambridge, MA; London: The MIT Press, 1973. Oblong 8vo paperback. 123pp. B/W photos. Good book. Gifter's inscription on half title page. (African Americans, Arkansas, Rural Poor, Documentary Photography) Inquire if you need further information.
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Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear, covers are scuffed and scratched, tape over a tear in the spine and near the bottom front corner, magazine clippings about the author are taped to the inner front cover page and to the first page, overall a very clean, collectible first edition! Very very scarce and hard-to-find! Extremely collectible and out-of-print! Richards first book containing over 100 black and white photographs of some of the poverty stricken areas of the Arkansas Delta in Southeastern Arkansas! "Eugene Richards is to be congratulated and his book not only to be treasuerd, but acted upon for long overdue social change. The only unfortunate major mistake is the cover. It is of a black girl desperately using a white doll's head for a mask. Not only is the symbolic importance of her gesture completely out of keeping with the rest of the book, but its use as a lead shot gives a completely misleading direction to the book's actual content."
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Acceptable. MA: MIT 1973. Presumed 1st. Hardcover 8vo oblong 123 pgs. B/w plates. Near good book in a poor dust jacket. White covers are soiled and edgeworn. Hinge is cracked for about 1 1/2 inches at bottom of front and rear cover. Contents clean and interior binding sound. Jacket is edgeworn and chipped. Jacket is in 2 pieces with most of the spine and the rear flap missing. (african american studies, african american history, black studies, black history, arkansas, photo, photography) Inquire if you need further information.
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Good in Very good jacket. Jacket is worn and chipped along edges. Jacket is lightly tanned and foxed. Top corner of front jacket flap is clipped, not affecting legibility. Cover spine is torn at the bottom and cover corners are worn. Binding is secure. Edges of text block are foxed. First few pages have some foxing along edges. Images are bright and unmarked.
