Gordon Parks’s Harlem Argument – The New York Times

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Gordon Parks’s Harlem Argument

A look at Gordon Parks’s first photo essay for Life shows how editors’ choices of words and pictures can manipulate meaning.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/gordon-parkss-harlem-argument/

Fresh from assignments at Vogue and Glamour in 1948, Gordon Parks appeared one morning at Life’s New York headquarters, determined to show his portfolio to Wilson Hicks, the magazine’s esteemed picture editor. Mr. Hicks was initially reluctant, but he warmed to Mr. Parks’s work and the story he pitched about the gang warfare then plaguing Harlem.