Ella Watson: The Empowered Woman of Gordon Parks’s ‘American Gothic’ – The New York Times

Ella Watson: The Empowered Woman of Gordon Parks’s ‘American Gothic’

Gordon Parks’s photograph “American Gothic” afforded rare attention to a black female subject who was not a celebrity or entertainer, but a mother and a worker.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/lens/ella-watson-the-empowered-woman-of-gordon-parks-american-gothic-.html

Gordon Parks’s photograph “American Gothic” afforded rare attention to a black female subject who was not a celebrity or entertainer, but a mother and a worker.