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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, the Life 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. ** Review "The photo-essay, seen for the first time in its entirety here, is a landmark in photography's history. The 50 images show how Villet did not embroil himself in the legal tangles but captured what

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Author

photographs by Grey Villet; text by Barbara Villet

Publisher

Princeton Architectural Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781616895563

Category

history

Subjects

Photography, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.22 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14