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Revolution in black and white : photographs of the Civil Rights Era by Ernest C. Withers / by Withers, Ernest C.,1922-2007,photographer.(CARDINAL)681230; Williams, Michael(Michael F.),author.(CARDINAL)545810; Cahan, Richard,author.(CARDINAL)743716; Young, Andrew,1932-writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)150132;
"Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years.During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement. Withers worked primarily a local photographer,as a freelancer for the Memphis World and Tri-State Defender starting in 1948. His photographs of the everyday world--proms, funerals, people at work and play, and street life--create a stunning record of what it was like to live in Memphis and the Mid-South. He was also a noted baseball photographer, documenting Negro League baseball, and a noted music photographer, taking thousands of photographs of early jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll and R&B performers. This book combines all of his work for the first time and uses first-hand accounts from men and women who lived in the South to explain these transformative years. The photographs, taken as bare-bones journalism, rise to the level of fine art decades later. They are also important examples of photojournalism, documenting decades of struggle in Memphis and the Mid-South. They serve as an important missing link in the civil rights narrative. This book goes beyond the headlines to show how Withers created an essential record for all of us to better understand life in the South during this crucial era."--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Catalogs.; Illustrated works.; Withers, Ernest C.,d1922-2007; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Civil rights movements; Civil rights movements; African American civil rights workers; African American civil rights workers; African American photographers; Documentary photography;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Negro league baseball / by Withers, Ernest C.,1922-2007.(CARDINAL)681230; Decaneas, Antony.(CARDINAL)658724;
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.; Baseball; Negro leagues; Negro leagues;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Revolution in black and white : photographs of the Civil Rights era by Ernest Withers / by Withers, Ernest C.,1922-2007,photographer.; Cahan, Richard,author.; Williams, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 288).Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers of the civil rights era. During the course of his work, he took thousands of photographs that document the civil rights movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to explain the civil rights movement that changed the country. Withers was primarily a local photographer, working as a freelancer for the Memphis World and Tri-State Defender starting in 1948. His photographs of the everyday world--bridge clubs, funerals, people at work and play, and street life--create a stunning record of what it was like to live in Memphis and the Mid-South. He was also a noted baseball photographer, documenting Negro League baseball in Memphis, and a noted music photographer, taking thousands of photographs of jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll and R&B performers. This book combines this work for the first time and uses first-hand accounts of people who lived in the South to explain these transformative years. The photographs, taken as bare-bones journalism, rises to the level of fine art decades later. They are also important examples of photojournalism, documenting decades of struggle in Memphis and the Mid-South. They serve as an important missing link in the civil rights narrative. In 2010, three years after his death, the Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper published a series of articles that showed that Withers was a paid informant of the FBI. This book goes beyond the headlines to show how Withers created an essential record for all of us to better understand life in the South during this crucial era.
Subjects: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.; African Americans; Civil rights movements;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bluff City : the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers / by Lauterbach, Preston,author.(CARDINAL)396191;
"The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured--and influenced--a critical moment in American history. Who was Ernest Withers? Most Americans may not know the name, but they do know his photographs. Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and '60s: Martin Luther King, Jr., riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till's uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at one of his nephew's killers; scores of African-American protestors, carrying a forest of signs reading 'I am a man.' But while he enjoyed unparalleled access to the inner workings of the civil rights movement, Withers was working as an informant for the FBI. In this gripping narrative history, Preston Lauterbach examines the complicated political and economic forces that informed Withers's seeming betrayal of the people he photographed. Withers traversed disparate worlds, from Black Power meetings to raucous Memphis nightclubs where Elvis brushed shoulders with B.B. King. He had a gift for capturing both dramatic historic moments and intimate emotional ones, and it may have been this attention to nuance that made Withers both a brilliant photographer and an essential asset to the FBI. Written with similar nuance, Bluff City culminates with a riveting account of the 1968 riot that ended in violence just a few days before Dr. King's death. Brimming with new information and featuring previously unpublished and rare photographs from the Withers archive not seen in over fifty years, Bluff City grapples with the legacy of a man whose actions--and artistry--make him an enigmatic and fascinating American figure."--Dust jacket.Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-319) and index.Don't touch anything -- The pictures tell the story -- Holding on to Jerusalem Slim -- I am a man.
Subjects: Biographies.; Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.; African American photographers; Photojournalists; African American civil rights workers; Informers;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Pictures tell the story : Ernest C. Withers : reflections in history / by Hurley, F. Jack(Forrest Jack)(CARDINAL)156229; Wolff, Daniel J.(CARDINAL)214277; Chrysler Museum.(CARDINAL)156505;
Subjects: Biographies.; Exhibition catalogs.; Illustrated works.; Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007; Civil rights movements; Documentary photography; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A spy in Canaan : how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement / by Perrusquia, Marc,author.(CARDINAL)528115;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-341) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.; Photographers; Informers; Civil rights movements; Undercover operations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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