Mine Eyes Have Seen by Bob Adelman

Mine Eyes Have Seen Reviews

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  Wendelle

  powerful images that capture intense moments in the Civil Rights movement.
  
  ""King knew, and said often, that he was aware of the gamble the Movement was taking. It could only succeed in America, he said, because the sacred documents of this country's secular religion, containing principles dating back to the Magna Carta, would shame it into eventually providing justice and equality for all. Other nations-- one thinks of Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia or Cambodia in the 1970s-- might have responded to such large-scale civil disobedience by dotting the countryside with mass graves."
  ""But the high risk gamble paid off, resulting in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 2 monumental legislative achievements that gave new meaning to the American experiment in democracy."
  -- from the book's foreword
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  Owlseyes

  An Urgent Message
  February 21, 2014 | by Ann Beattie
  
  
  http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/20...
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  Douglas Castagna

  An excellent piece of photo journalism. These pictures were very powerful and moving and synched up with the essays to paint a picture of a dark era in our country's history. One or two of the pictures were really interesting and different, and thus evoked an even more powerful response in me, and those, strangely enough were of Martin Luther King Jr. in a rare moment with a smile on his face and in his eyes. As if in that candid moment he knew everything would be all right.
  
  Truly powerful images and captions, well worth checking out.
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  Brian Page

  Bob Adelman’s photographs are powerful, poignant; and the essays by Charles Johnson are eloquent and insightful. The only problem with this 2007 publication is that it looks to the civil rights struggle as history. How ironic it is that just after publication we have learned that the struggle for equal rights – even human dignity – is far from being something to look back upon. Adelman’s images could represent our current (2021) world with only slight fashion changes amongst the subjects. This book is a treasure, and a reminder that the struggle for civil rights is far from over.
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  A W Main

  Adelman has captured the humanity of a significant era in history.
  It's humbling to consider the sacrifice made by individuals to deliver equality, but equally concerning that these hard worn rights have been eroded over time.
  Lest we forget has always referred to the first world war, but sadly it is apt to repeat it in the present in relation to these times too.
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  Quatrell Shedd

  Theres nothing to much on this book i didnt enjoy it like that it showed mainly pictures more than ever facts and if it was facts it would be simple baby facts that any African American shall know needs more interest in the book i strongly dislike this history text
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  Stacy-Ann

  I really love this book, love the black and white Photographs are great.
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  مصطفي سليمان

  من كتاب ما رآته عيني..شاهد عيان عن معاناة حركة الحقوق المدنية.
  الذي يرصد من خلال الصور مدي المعاناة التي شهدتها الحركة المدينة من تضييق أو تمييز عنصري.
  
  المصور بوب آديل مان
  
  
  سيدة في تأبين مارتن لوثر كينج.. ممفيس تينيسي..١٩٦٨
  
  
  
  مغني الجاز لويس آرمسترونج..نيويورك..١٩٦٦
  
  
  مقاطعة فيرري،نهر مسيسيبي ، ١٩٦٤
  
  
  خطاب كراهية أمام البيت الأبيض..واشطن دي سي..١٩٦٢
  
  
  فصل مدرسي..نيويورك..١٩٦٨
  
  
  مالكوم أكس في مظاهرة للحقوق المدنية في بروكلين..نيويورك..١٩٦٣
  
  
  عودة من أعتصام..نيويورك.. ١٩٦٣
  
  
  ف انتظار عربة القطن..تاكولا..ميسيسيبي..١٩٨١
  
  
  عازف ومغني الجاز الأسطوري مايلز دافيز في نادي village vanguard للجاز..١٩٥٩
  
  
  
  
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  Chris

  Powerfully affecting photographs of the Civil Rights era, with revealing anecdotes from Adelman, all set into context by searching essays from the hand of Dr. Charles Johnson.
  
  One particularly emotional shot (for me) was a group of protesters being sprayed with a fire hose (noted as being capable of stripping the bark from trees); rather than being washed away, the group managed to stand huddled, withstanding the blast. Adelman recalls that he had never witnessed such cruelty and wept while photographing the scene. I felt nearly the same simply viewing the photo. Later, he gave a print of this to Dr. King, who "studied it and remarked, 'I am startled that out of so much pain some beauty came.'"
  
  What a body of work. Related note, I recently saw the movie Selma and wouldn't be surprised if the production team had relied heavily on Adelman's work to shoot the movie--many of the scenes seem identical to his photos.
  
  Young Americans have seen similar photos and films again and again in grade school, but they never lose their resonance, nor their importance. Adelman's work shows how far we've come, as much as the renewed tensions of the past couple of years show just how far we've left to go. I can only hope we have some intrepid photo/journalists of Adelman's abilities and character left to us, to help focus the narrow but intense spotlight of humanity on our civic blights, helping illuminate the way to a promised land of true equality for all.
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  Jennifer

  Sure, these are familiar images if you've ever studied any American history. Adelman's photography is worth another look, though, to see how he captured the people of the civil rights movement in motion.
  
  I recently spoke with Adelman about his work for The Associated Press:
  
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Flipping through a stack of color images he shot during a 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., photographer Bob Adelman is casual about the history they represent.
  
  He pauses at the image of a group of people with clasped hands raised in victory at a Montgomery, Ala., cab stand, where people had gathered during the city's long bus boycott a decade earlier, and calls them "real King fans." Pointing to the second floor of the Alabama Capitol, behind a line of green-helmeted troops, he chuckles as he remembers, "Gov. Wallace was hiding behind the curtains up there."
  
  Then there's the man with his fist raised in mid-speech, whom he calls "Doc" -- better known as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
  
  "Now they seem like momentous events. At the time, they were covered in the back pages of newspapers, for the most part. The only time blacks appeared in newspapers at that time was when there was violence," Adelman said.
  
  Read more at:
  http://bigstory.ap.org/article/exhibi...
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  Bridget •Introvert•Gen-X•

  Beautifully done!
  
  So glad my library had this still sitting out when I was browsing around. I've been wanting to look through Bob Adelman's pictures since I heard about them some years back (don't remember how long ago it was)..but I'd always forget to look for it at the library or online. He is really amazing at capturing the pictures (In My Opinion). Hopefully one day I'll be able to find the book to buy, at a great price of course! :-)
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  Valarie

  A lot of great photographs in this volume, and some interesting captions, though there were also a few lackluster images that seemed to be thrown in as filler. "Random snapshot of a black person...well, they're black so it fits with our Civil Rights theme...right?"
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  Tamika Turner

  Love the photographs
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  Bruce Thomas

  Great photography from the '60's era with Johnson's commentary.