Maurice Berger Interview: How Gordon Parks Redefined Art and Politics

Описание: Cultural Historian Maurice Berger explores the roles of media, race and representation in the middle of the 20th century while Gordon Parks comes of age as a photographer and filmmaker.

Maurice Berger was a curator and a writer who used his forceful voice against both overt and subtle racism in the art world and other arenas. Berger spent a lifetime being conscious of how race determines opportunities, attitudes and much more, in his own life and in society at large. His writing exploring those influences was blunt and provocative. There was, for instance, “Are Art Museums Racist?,” a 1990 essay in Art in America.

From the HBO / Kunhardt Film Foundation (KFF) Documentary "A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks" that follows Parks' career, from staff photographer for LIFE magazine through his artistic development and evolution as a novelist and filmmaker.

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Maurice Berger, Cultural Historian
Interviewed By: John Maggio
Interview Date: December 16, 2019

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