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Bisa Butler, Andre D. Wagner, and Nicole Fleetwood Named Gordon Parks Fellows

by Hakim Bishara January 26, 2022January 27, 2022

Since 2017, the Gordon Parks Foundation has awarded annual fellowships to 10 artists in a range of disciplines.

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The Contours of Black American Life, According to Gordon Parks

by Alexandra M. Thomas February 2, 2021February 2, 2021

Viewing Parks’s photographs in 2021 offers stark, graceful reminders of the ongoing fight for civil rights.

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When Gordon Parks Photographed the Life of a Brazilian Boy and Sparked Debate

by Douglas Messerli August 17, 2019August 23, 2019

Published in Life Magazine, the images of the sick and impoverished twelve-year-old Flávio da Silva prompted an outpouring of letters and offers of financial assistance.

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An Exhibition of Gordon Parks’s Photography Suggests New Roles for African-American Collectors

by Jewels Dodson June 26, 2019June 27, 2019

An exhibition of Gordon Parks’s photography at Harvard University’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery highlights the unique role that Kasseem Dean is attempting to carve out as collector of Black art.

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The Lesser-Known Photos of Gordon Parks, from Fashion to Artists’ Portraits

by Ilana Novick February 5, 2018February 6, 2018

A two-part exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery sheds light on relatively obscure works by the master photographer, from colorful fashion imagery to portraits of Muhammad Ali, Helen Frankenthaler, and others.

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A View into the Living Room of America

by Seph Rodney May 10, 2017May 10, 2017

If there ever was one American psychic space, soul, or ethos, it forked a long time ago into divergent streams you can see in this show.

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Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison’s Collaborative Visions of Harlem

by John Edwin Mason August 19, 2016August 21, 2016

CHICAGO — Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison, two of the 20th century’s most celebrated artists, shared a vision of what it meant to be black in the US.

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Gordon Parks’s Long-Forgotten Color Photographs of Everyday Segregation

by Chris Cobb January 12, 2016January 21, 2016

When Life magazine sent Gordon Parks to document the daily lives of three black families living in Alabama, it was 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott.

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Celebrating Photographers of Color and the Collectives That Have Nurtured Them

by John Edwin Mason March 20, 2015March 25, 2015

“And who else is there?” A staff member at a well-known photo festival and I were nearing the end of an awkward conversation.

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Gordon Parks’s Tribute to the Great Migration, 65 Years Past Due

by Laura C. Mallonee March 17, 2015March 16, 2015

Few magazines disseminated the American Dream as widely as Life did in the years following the Second World War.

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