Gordon Parks, the American photographer who observed Americans in Paris
Known for his photographs of the civil rights movement, Gordon Parks spent two years in the French capital for 'Life' ...
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Unpublished Photos by Gordon Parks Bring a Nuanced View of 1950s Black America
One of his former classmates was living in a tenement in Chicago, as shown in this untitled photograph from 1950. “He really paved the way,” Peter Kunhardt, Jr., a family friend and executive ...
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Why the photography of Gordon Parks still resonates today
Gordon Parks took photographs that focused on race relations, poverty, civil rights and urban life. He was the first African American staff photographer and writer for photography magazine, Life, and ...