Ed Clark: On Assignment 1931 - 1962 \n \nThis box set contains 2 bound volumes.
\n \nTaken from personal archives of photographs, negatives, sheets of
contact and albums by Ed Clark, these two volumes reveal the work of a figure
key to the golden age of American photojournalism. On the pageantry of politics
to the rhythms of small town life, from movie stars to class
worker, Clark covered the personalities and notable events of his
age. \n \nEd Clark is one of the most fascinating and
most important of the 20th century. A talented photographer, Clark began his
career in 1929 at The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville and worked
for 22 years for Life magazine. He photographed several of the works
Life's most important during the period when the magazine had the largest
cultural impact; Clark's images helped shape the sense of a
nation towards itself and the world. Its many subjects include the
Nuremberg war crimes trials, civil rights conflict at
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hollywood stars and
The 1950s film industry, the people and the arts of the Union
Soviet. And the White House under the Eisenhower and Kennedy governments.
Through Clark's eyes we witness some central episodes and themes
of the post-war world. \n \nCo-published with the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation,
photos in bw
