Baltimore Lives - The Portraits of John Clark Mayden

Mayden, and an essay by art historian Michael Harris on how Mayden's work fits into larger trends of black photography, Baltimore Lives is a stunning visual history of the spatial and human elements that together make Baltimore's inner city.

About the author

John Clark Mayden, an attorney in the Baltimore City Solicitor's office for thirty-four years, began photographing urban landscapes and people in 1970. His photographs have been exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the University of Pennsylvania's Sharp Gallery, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 2008, he was a Syracuse University Artist-in-Residence at Light Work.

Summary

Mayden, and an essay by art historian Michael Harris on how Mayden's work fits into larger trends of black photography, Baltimore Lives is a stunning visual history of the spatial and human elements that together make Baltimore's inner city.

Product details

• Authors: John Clark Mayden
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781421432847
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3284-7
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Baltimore, Maryland, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Street Photography, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical, Local History, Photographs: collections, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, HISTORY / African American & Black