Gordon Parks’s Alternative Civil Rights Photographs


Link: Gordon Parks’s Alternative Civil Rights Photographs – NYTimes.com

While 20 photographs were eventually published in Life, the bulk of Mr. Parks’s work from that shoot was thought to have been lost. That is, until this spring, when the Gordon Parks Foundation discovered more than 70 color transparencies at the bottom of an old storage box, wrapped in paper and masking tape and marked, “Segregation Series.”