Preston Lauterbach

Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work capturedand influenceda critical moment in American history.

Ernest 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 his nephew's killer; scores of African-American protestors carrying a forest of signs reading i am a man. But at the same time, Withers was working as an FBI informant. 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, and does a masterful job of telling the story of civil rights in Memphis in the 1960s (Ed Ward, Financial Times), including the events surrounding Dr. King's tumultuous final march in Memphis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393247930
• Artikelnr.: 59593641

Autorenporträt

Preston Lauterbach is the author of Bluff City, Beale Street Dynasty, The Chitlin' Circuit, a Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe book of the year, and co-author of Brother Johnson: Growing Up with Robert Johnson. He is a former visiting scholar at Rhodes College and a Virginia Humanities Fellow. He lives in Virginia.