1959

Editions of ‘1959’, Thulani Davis’ coming-of-age novel set in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, utilize images from at least two major photographers: Marion Post Wolcott’s graphically striking picture of a black man climbing stairs to the ‘Colored’ entrance of a movie theatre (1992 Hamish Hamilton edition) has a more direct correspondence to the novel’s subject matter than the jacket of the 1993 edition from Harper Perennial, on which designer Honi Werner has rendered a semi-abstract painting from a small, central detail of Nan Goldin’s dreamlike Sun hits the road, Shandaken, N.Y. 1983 (‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’ Aperture 1986, p.117).