- Title : Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey
- Author : Chester Higgins
- Rating : 4.99 (539 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-1-23
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 208 Pages
- Asin : 0385509782
- Language : English
Higgins’s extraordinary ability to get to the spirit of things—the essence of what makes people and places come alive, makes them interesting, beautiful, or ugly—resonates throughout ECHO OF THE SPIRIT. He pays tribute to his mentors—P. There a
Higgins’s extraordinary ability to get to the spirit of things—the essence of what makes people and places come alive, makes them interesting, beautiful, or ugly—resonates throughout ECHO OF THE SPIRIT. He pays tribute to his mentors—P. There are images and memories of his favorite great uncle, Forth, who died at the age of 107, and of his aunt Shug, a masterful quilt maker. Polk, Cornell Capa, Gordon Parks, Romare Bearden, and Arthur Rothenstein at Look magazine—describing their lessons and their influence on his work.
As a New York Times photographer, Higgins has taken glorious, one-of-a-kind pictures of people from all walks of life and covered grim disasters and history-making events. In stunning photographs and an intimate, moving narrative, award-winning New York Times photographer, Chester Higgins, chronicles his forty-year quest to capture and celebrate the singular, defining qualities of people, places, and events. Throughout his career, Higgins has also pursued a more personal mission: in unforgettable photographs, he has documented the history and liHe has had one-man shows at the International Center of Photography, the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of African Art, and the Schomburg Center and is the author of Elder Grace, Feeling the Spirit, Sometime Ago, The Drums of Life, and Black Woman. CHESTER HIGGINS has been on the staff of The New York Times since 1975. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
. His photographs have also appeared in
Artnews,
Newsweek,
Fortune,
Essence, and a number of other magazines and have been featured on
CBS Sunday Morning and on several PBS and ABC television programs
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