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James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin Steve Schapiro

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English
Taschen GmbH
07 March 2025
First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called ""Negro problem.""

As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal

account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered

one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race

relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a

candid assault on the hypocrisy of the ""land of the free.""

Now, James Baldwin's rich, raw, and ever relevant prose is reprinted with more than 100 photographs from Steve Schapiro, who traveled the American South with Baldwin for Life

magazine. The encounter thrust Schapiro into the thick of the movement,

allowing for vital, often iconic, images both of civil rights

leaders-including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Jerome Smith-and such landmark events as the March on Washington and the Selma march.

Rounding out the edition are Schapiro's stories from the field, captions by journalist Marcia Davis, and an essay by Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart,

who was with her brother James in Sierra Leone when he started to work

on the story. The result is a remarkable visual and textual record of one of the most important and enduring struggles of the American experience.

First published as a TASCHEN Collector's Edition, now available in a pocket-sized Centennial Edition.
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Imprint:   Taschen GmbH
Country of Publication:   Germany
Dimensions:   Height: 195mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   420g
ISBN:   9783836596992
ISBN 10:   3836596997
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era. His nonfiction collections, most notably Notes of a Native Son (1955) and The Fire Next Time (1963), and novels, including Giovanni’s Room (1956) and Another Country (1962), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in mid-20th-century America. A Harlem, New York, native, he primarily made his home in the south of France. Steve Schapiro’s career as a freelance photojournalist started with a story on Arkansas migrant workers that made the cover of the The New York Times Magazine in 1961. Since then, his images have appeared in Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. In the 1970s, he began a second career as a successful publicity stills and movie poster photographer, working on classic films such as Taxi Driver, The Way We Were, and The Godfather—which can be seen in The Godfather Family Album (TASCHEN, 2008). In 2016, he collaborated with Lawrence Schiller on a Barbra Streisand book (TASCHEN) and in 2017, his Civil Rights photographs were combined with the text of James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time (TASCHEN). He died in 2022.

Reviews for James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time

“Schapiro and Baldwin showed the possibility of what strong writing and photography could achieve in their time. In ours, we’d do well to look to them.” * The Guardian *


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