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Arts > Photo > List by Name > USA > Gordon Parks 1912-2006
Photograph: Gordon Parks
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/e23f80d4661b5a3a.html - broken link
The Fontenelles at the Poverty Board, Harlem, New York, 1967
The incomparable Gordon Parks – in pictures Gordon Parks: I Am You published by Steidl Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948
Photograph: Gordon Parks
A new book celebrates the breadth of photographer and film-maker Gordon Parks’s work, including his images of a racially divided south in the 1960s, his fashion work for Life and Vogue, and the heartbreaking poverty of a Harlem family.
I Am You is published by The Gordon Parks Foundation, c/o Berlin and Steidl G Wed 8 Feb 2017 16.52 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2017/feb/08/
Bessie and Little Richard the Morning After She Scalded Her Husband, Harlem, New York, 1967.
Photograph: Courtesy of the Gordon Parks Foundation and Nicholas Metivier Gallery
The photographers who exposed America: Arbus, Goldin, Winogrand G Saturday 30 April 2016 12.00 BST Last modified on Saturday 30 April 2016 12.01 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/30/
Ali talking with a group of workers. Miami. 1966.
Photograph: Gordon Parks courtesy of The Gordon Parks Foundation
Two Champions: Muhammad Ali and Gordon Parks By David Gonzalez NYT Jun. 7, 2016
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/07
Ali leaning against a banister in his newly tailored suit. London. 1966.
Photograph: Gordon Parks, courtesy of The Gordon Parks Foundation
Two Champions: Muhammad Ali and Gordon Parks By David Gonzalez NYT Jun. 7, 2016
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/
Mobile, Alabama by Gordon Parks.
Photograph: The Gordon Parks Foundation and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
'His work is a testament': the ever-relevant photography of Gordon Parks G Thu 21 Jan 2021 17.07 GMT Last modified on Thu 21 Jan 2021 17.17 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/21/
Ondria Tanner and her grandmother window shopping. Mobile, Ala., 1956.
Gordon Parks, Courtesy of the Gordon Parks Foundation
The Cinematic Images of Gordon Parks NYT Aug. 28, 2017
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/
“Department Store,” 1956.
Featured in “A Radically Prosaic Approach to Civil Rights Images.”
Photograph: Gordon Parks Gordon Parks Foundation
10 Years of Photography, and Lens A look back at a decade of The New York Times Lens column. NYT May 22, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/
Untitled, At Segregated Drinking Fountain, Mobile, Alabama, 1956
The Jim Crow laws established in southern states ensured that public amenities remained racially segregated.
These laws applied to schools, public transport, restaurants, recreational facilities and even drinking fountains.
This image shows the prevalence of such prejudice, while capturing a scene of compassion.
Here, a gentleman helps one of the young girls reach the fountain to have a refreshing drink
Segregation stories: Gordon Parks in the US south – in pictures The great photographer documented black family life in postwar Alabama – and the dignity and resilience people showed under discriminatory Jim Crow laws The Guardian Wed 8 Apr 2026 08.00 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/apr/08/
Untitled, Mobile, Alabama, 1956
With more than 30 photographs from the artist’s Segregation Story series, and debuting a brand-new portfolio published by the foundation, this exhibition puts many previously unshown works alongside his most recognised to deepen their emotional and historical resonance
Segregation stories: Gordon Parks in the US south – in pictures The great photographer documented black family life in postwar Alabama – and the dignity and resilience people showed under discriminatory Jim Crow law The Guardian Wed 8 Apr 2026 08.00 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/apr/08/
Untitled, Alabama, 1956
Parks employed a handheld, twin-lens Rolleiflex camera to photograph the daily lives of the Thornton family and their extended relatives, among them the Causey and Tanner families.
His camera selection and decision to shoot in colour resulted in the carefully composed, lush, square format images in the exhibition
Segregation stories: Gordon Parks in the US south – in pictures The great photographer documented black family life in postwar Alabama – and the dignity and resilience people showed under discriminatory Jim Crow laws The Guardian Wed 8 Apr 2026 08.00 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/apr/08/
Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956
The exhibition is timed to commemorate two milestones: the 70th anniversary of the publication of Parks’ landmark images of the segregated US south in Life magazine, and the 20th anniversary of the founding of The Gordon Parks Foundation
Segregation stories: Gordon Parks in the US south – in pictures The great photographer documented black family life in postwar Alabama – and the dignity and resilience people showed under discriminatory Jim Crow laws The Guardian Wed 8 Apr 2026 08.00 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/apr/08/
Untitled, 1956
Parks attended a segregated elementary school.
His high school had both black students and white students, as the town was too small for segregated high schools.
Black students were not allowed to play sports or attend school social activities, and they were discouraged from developing aspirations for higher education.
Parks related, in a documentary on his life, that his teacher told him that his desire to go to college would be a waste of money
Segregation stories: Gordon Parks in the US south – in pictures The great photographer documented black family life in postwar Alabama – and the dignity and resilience people showed under discriminatory Jim Crow laws The Guardian Wed 8 Apr 2026 08.00 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/apr/08/
Untitled, 1956
Anglonautes' note: Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton, Sr.
Photographer Dawoud Bey, the exhibition’s curator, writes about how Parks’ choices of ‘tool, material and sensibility lend the Black southern presence, often under siege, a sense of lives fully and expressively lived’
Segregation stories: Gordon Parks in the US south – in pictures The great photographer documented black family life in postwar Alabama – and the dignity and resilience people showed under discriminatory Jim Crow laws The Guardian Wed 8 Apr 2026 08.00 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/apr/08/
Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton, Sr.
He is 82, the son of a slave, a sharecropper and independent farmer.
Part of "Background of Segregation" series.
Location: Mobile, AL, US
Date taken: 1956
Photographer: Gordon Parks
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/6bc1be1a1940d3ec.html - broken link
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton, Mobile, Alabama, 1956
The incomparable Gordon Parks – in pictures Gordon Parks: I Am You published by Steidl Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948
Photograph: Gordon Parks
A new book celebrates the breadth of photographer and film-maker Gordon Parks’s work, including his images of a racially divided south in the 1960s, his fashion work for Life and Vogue, and the heartbreaking poverty of a Harlem family.
I Am You is published by The Gordon Parks Foundation, c/o Berlin and Steidl G Wed 8 Feb 2017 16.52 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2017/feb/08/
A gambling woman at Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 1949.
Photograph: Gordon Parks Courtesy of the Gordon Parks Foundation
How Gordon Parks Became Gordon Parks transformation over the formative decade before his time as the first black staff photographer at Life magazine. NYT Oct. 1, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/
Red and Herbie Levy at the funeral of Maurice Gaines. Harlem. 1948.
Photograph: Gordon Parks Courtesy of the Gordon Parks Foundation
Gordon Parks’s Harlem Argument NYT By Maurice Berger Nov. 11, 2015
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/
Harlem, New York, 1947.
Photograph: Gordon Parks Courtesy of the Gordon Parks Foundation
How Gordon Parks Became Gordon Parks A new book examines Gordon Parks’s transformation over the formative decade before his time as the first black staff photographer at Life magazine. NYT Oct. 1, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/
A kettle tender pouring an automotive lubricant 1944
Photograph: Gordon Parks
The resulting images, dramatically staged, lit and composed, showed the range of activities for Black and white workers, divided by roles, race and class
Give grease a chance: inside an oily Pittsburgh factory – in pictures Class, race and labour are all dissected in Gordon Parks’ 1940s photographs for the Standard Oil Company G Tue 16 Aug 2022 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/16/
“American Gothic,” Washington, D.C., 1942.
Photograph: Gordon Parks Courtesy of the Gordon Parks Foundation
Ella Watson:
The Empowered Woman of Gordon Parks's 'American Gothic' afforded rare attention to a black female subject who was not a celebrity or entertainer, but a mother and a worker. NYT May 14, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/
Gordon Parks 1912-2006
Gordon Parks.
Photograph: Adger Cowans
The Heartbeat of Our Being, in Black and White By Maurice Berger NYT Dec. 20, 2016
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/
Self-Portrait, 1941.
Photograph: Courtesy of the Gordon Parks Foundation
How Gordon Parks Became Gordon Parks A new book examines Gordon Parks’s transformation over the formative decade before his time as the first black staff photographer at Life magazine. NYT Oct. 1, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks 1912-2006
photographer, filmmaker, writer and composer who used his prodigious, largely self-taught talents to chronicle the African-American experience and to retell his own personal history
(...)
He developed a large following as a photographer for Life for more than 20 years, and by the time he was 50 he ranked among the most influential image makers of the postwar years.
In the 1960's he began to write memoirs, novels, poems and screenplays, which led him to directing films.
In addition to "The Learning Tree," he directed the popular action films "Shaft" and "Shaft's Big Score!"
In 1970 he helped found Essence magazine and was its editorial director from 1970 to 1973.
(...)
Mr. Parks's years as a contributor to Life, the largest-circulation picture magazine of its day, lasted from 1948 to 1972, and it cemented his reputation as a humanitarian photojournalist and as an artist with an eye for elegance.
He specialized in subjects relating to racism, poverty and black urban life, but he also took exemplary pictures of Paris fashions, celebrities and politicians. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/arts/design/08parks.html
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