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Alonzo Jordan - Jasper, Texas
Author Alan Govenar has developed a concept which he calls Community Photographer using images of the everyday black environment to reveal shared values and beliefs in their community. Alonzo Jordan was a barber who drifted into photography and became the town's recorder of the positive lifestyles of the black population. The 133 plates of Jasper by Jordan celebrate Govenar's idea.
The photos in the book show parades, weddings, funerals, graduations, civic groups and family gatherings. Like any small-town photographer he was being paid to show those being photographed in a positive way and the delivered prints would take pride of place in their homes as a permanent record. It's worth saying, as Govenar does in his interesting introduction, that Jordan didn't record every bit of black life Jasper. The town was segregated and none of that comes across in his photos, he wasn't paid to record the downside of life.
Publisher: Steidl Publishers
Published: 2010-12-20
Format: Hardback 160 pages
ISBN13: 9783869301518
ISBN10: 3869301511
Our Price: £51.99
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