Between the open and the hidden: Clothing, segregation, and the feminine counter-archive in the photographs of Gordon Parks
| dc.contributor.author | Lamm, K | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-09T20:04:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-06-09T20:04:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-12-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0256-0046 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1992-6049 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | ||
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Informa UK Limited | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Critical Arts | |
| dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1080/02560046.2015.1102266 | |
| dc.rights.uri | ||
| dc.title | Between the open and the hidden: Clothing, segregation, and the feminine counter-archive in the photographs of Gordon Parks | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| pubs.begin-page | 134 | |
| pubs.end-page | 149 | |
| pubs.issue | sup1 | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Duke | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Trinity College of Arts & Sciences | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Art, Art History & Visual Studies | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies | |
| pubs.publication-status | Published | |
| pubs.volume | 29 |
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