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Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images: By Maurice Berger

By (author) Maurice Berger, Edited by Marvin Heiferman, Foreword by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Preface by Sarah Lewis, Preface by Leigh Raiford, Preface by Deborah Willis, Afterword by Dawoud Bey, Afterword by Nona Faustine, Afterword by Peter Kunhardt, Designed by Morcos Key

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The first title in Apertureâ€™s Vision & Justice Book Seriesâ€”featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. Created and coedited by Drs. Sarah Lewis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis, the series reexamines and redresses historical narratives of photography, race, and justice. Edited by Marvin Heiferman,Â Race Stories: Essays on the Power of ImagesÂ examines the transformational role photography plays in shaping ideas and attitudes about race and how photographic images have been instrumental in both perpetuating and combating racial stereotypes. Written between 2012 and 2019 and first presented as a monthly feature on the New York TimesÂ Lens blog, Bergerâ€™s incisive essays help readers see a bigger picture about race through storytelling. By directing attention to the most revealing aspects of images, Berger makes complex issues comprehensible, vivid, and engaging. The essays illuminate a range of images, issues, and events: the modern civil rights movement; African Americanâ€“, Latinxâ€“, Asian Americanâ€“, and Native American photography; and pivotal moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when race, photography, and visual culture intersected. They also examine the full spectrum of photographic imaging: from amateur to professional pictures, from snapshots to fine art, from mugshots to celebrated icons of photojournalism. Race Stories collects together Bergerâ€™s reader-friendly essays in their breadth and brilliance to encourage a broad range of readers to look at and think about photographs in order to better understand themselves and the diverse world around them. Copublished by Aperture and the New York Times.