Arias in Silence

by Gordon Parks

A collection of photographs by Gordon Parks. The images feature objects against abstract watercolour backgrounds evoking the buttes of the south-western states of America, or the rolling surf of the Atlantic beaches. They are accompanied by more than a dozen poems.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821221205
• ISBN13: 9780821221204
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.9" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 13 years and up

Customer Reviews

Images to get lost in.

The process Gordon Parks used when he made these photographs was innovative and unique. He painted beautiful watercolors, placed leaves and other objects suspended over them and made awesome photographs of the resulting image. The images are remarkable. His poetry harkens back to the age of civil rights strife and are a disturbing glimpse into that dark era. Somehow the beautiful images and troubled poetry are at odds with one another - but maybe that was his point. He was a great artist.