The Lovings : an intimate portrait
2017
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A beautifully heartrending document of their relationship, family and community. The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait documents the extraordinary love story of Mildred and Richard Loving. The Lovings presents Grey Villet's stunning photo-essay in its entirety for the first time and reveals with striking intensity and clarity the powerful bond of a couple that helped change history. Mildred, a woman of African American and Native American descent and Richard, a white man, were arrested in July 1958 for the crime of interracial marriage, prohibited under Virginia state law. Exiled to Washington, DC, they fought to bring their case to the US Supreme Court. Knowledge of their struggle spread across the nation and in the spring of 1965, theLife magazine photojournalist Villet spent a few weeks documenting the Lovings and their family and friends as they went about their lives in the midst of their trial Loving v. Virginia was the landmark US civil rights case that, in a unanimous decision, ultimately ended the prohibition of interracial marriage in 1967.
Main title:
The Lovings : an intimate portrait / photographs by Grey Villet ; text by Barbara Villet.
Author:
Villet, Grey, photographerVillet, Barbara, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2017.
Collation:
pages cm
ISBN:
9781616895563 (hardback)
Dewey class:
779.9306846778.92
LC class:
TR681.F28
Language:
English
Subject:
Families -- Virginia -- Pictorial worksLoving, Richard Perry -- PortraitsLoving, Mildred Jeter -- PortraitsLoving, Richard PerryLoving, Mildred JeterInterracial marriage -- Virginia -- Pictorial worksInterracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- VirginiaHISTORY / Social HistoryPHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / MonographsPHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & DocumentariesPhotography
BRN:
2630481
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