Between the open and the hidden: Clothing, segregation, and the feminine counter-archive in the photographs of Gordon Parks
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Lamm, K
Published in: Critical Arts
December 4, 2015
In this article I analyse the photographs Gordon Parks produced for the Life photo-essay The restraints: open and hidden, which depicts Jim Crow segregation in Mobile, Alabama. Drawing on Jacques Derrida's (1996) attention to the archival unconscious and Hortense Spillers (1987) concept of ungendering, I argue that Parks photographs of women's and girls clothing manifest his background in fashion photography and highlight the counter- archival pressure black femininity places on Jim Crow segregation and the photo-essay itself.
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Critical Arts
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1992-6049
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0256-0046
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December 4, 2015
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29
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134 / 149
Related Subject Headings
- 2002 Cultural Studies
- 2001 Communication and Media Studies
- 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media
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Lamm, K. (2015). Between the open and the hidden: Clothing, segregation, and the feminine counter-archive in the photographs of Gordon Parks. Critical Arts, 29, 134–149. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2015.1102266
Lamm, K. “Between the open and the hidden: Clothing, segregation, and the feminine counter-archive in the photographs of Gordon Parks.” Critical Arts 29 (December 4, 2015): 134–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2015.1102266.
Lamm K. Between the open and the hidden: Clothing, segregation, and the feminine counter-archive in the photographs of Gordon Parks. Critical Arts. 2015 Dec 4;29:134–49.
Lamm, K. “Between the open and the hidden: Clothing, segregation, and the feminine counter-archive in the photographs of Gordon Parks.” Critical Arts, vol. 29, Dec. 2015, pp. 134–49. Scopus, doi:10.1080/02560046.2015.1102266.
Lamm K. Between the open and the hidden: Clothing, segregation, and the feminine counter-archive in the photographs of Gordon Parks. Critical Arts. 2015 Dec 4;29:134–149.
Published In
Critical Arts
DOI
EISSN
1992-6049
ISSN
0256-0046
Publication Date
December 4, 2015
Volume
29
Start / End Page
134 / 149
Related Subject Headings
- 2002 Cultural Studies
- 2001 Communication and Media Studies
- 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media