在逃离南非发表他的开创性著作《奴役之家》(House of Bondage,1967年),揭露种族隔离的恐怖之后,科尔重新定居在纽约。他在纽约市的街头广泛摄影,并记录了美国城市和农村地区的黑人社区——在马丁·路德·金(Martin Luther King Jr.)被暗杀前后的几个月里,他穿越整个国家进行旅行。这些照片反映了科尔在美国体验到的新发现的自由,以及他对系统性种族主义不平等的敏锐洞察力。他在生前很少发布这些作品的图像,而且这些照片曾被认为已经完全丢失,直到2017年在瑞典重新发现了底片。这个宝库为我们提供了一个重要的了解美国社会的机会,并确立了科尔在美国摄影史上的地位。
The first publication of photographs taken by Ernest Cole in the United States during the turbulent and eventful late 1960s and early 1970s
After fleeing South Africa to publish his landmark book House of Bondage (1967) on the horrors of apartheid, Cole resettled in New York. He photographed extensively on the streets of New York City and documented Black communities in cities and rural areas of the United States—traveling across the country in the months leading up to and just after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The pictures reflect both a newfound freedom Cole experienced in America and an incisive eye for the inequalities of systemic racism. He released very few images from this body of work while he was alive, and the pictures were thought to be lost entirely until the negatives resurfaced in Sweden in 2017. This treasure trove provides an important window into American society and establishes Cole’s place in the history of American photography.
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