Description: Condition Continued: All of the photographs are in excellent condition. The book is also quite solidly bound. All the pages are nicely tight. The covers are also solidly bound. There is some dried glue at the juncture between the inside front cover and the facing blank front end paper. University of Kansas Museum of Art, Kansas,1973. Softcover. First Edition (NAP). A fairly rare book, even more so for being signed by the photographer, Marion Palfi. You can see her signature in the second photograph. Above it you can also see an inscription (' To Lee and Ernst ') in a different pen. That raises the possibility that a previous owner gave the signed book as a gift to friends, or possibly Ms. Palfi herself had a signed copy and inscribed it later to her own friends. In any event, the signature is hers.There is a four-page foreword by Lee. D. Witkin. That is followed by a six page biography of Marion Palfi. The book is divided into several sections. The first is titled Suffer Little Children and has 20 photographs. Each section has a page or two of text preceding it. From the beginning of the first one: 'From 1946 to 1949, under the sponsorship of the Rosenwald Foundation, Marion Palfi traveled across the United States photographing children and youth suffering from everything from poverty and prejudice to prisons and delinquency.' The second one is titled The South. It too has 20 photographs ( 'Throughout 1949 Palfi photographed in Georgia with the intention of capturing the essence of the discriminator. In 1961 these photographs, as well as those from earlier studies, earned for Ms.Palfi an award of recognition for photographic excellence from the National Urban League. The third section is titled You Have Never Been Old and contains five photographs. The next section is titled Civil Rights. It covers photographs 46 to 59 many of which depict scenes of segregation and white hatred, as well as protest and resistance. The last section consists of photographs of Native Americans. The first part of this study 'reveals the peaceful life of the Hopi, Navajo, and Papago on their own sacred land. The second part exposes the effects of government programs aimed at 'acculturation' and 'relocation' with specific goals of changing the Indian.' The photographs in this section are numbered 60 through 74. The title of the section is First I Liked The Whites, I Gave Them Fruits.Included with my book is some separate material about Marion Palfi from The Witkin Gallery in New York, as well as a very positive review of her work from the Sunday New York Times, dated March 11, 1973.
Price: 80 USD
Location: Pound Ridge, New York
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Format: Softcover
Language: English
Book Title: Invisible In America
Author: Marion Palfi; Foreword by Lee D. Witkin; Catalogue by James L. En
Topic: Poverty/Civil Rights/ Native Americans
