Tag: Gordon Parks

  • 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…

  • 13 Stories That Captured Photography in 2018 – The New York Times

    13 Stories That Captured Photography in 2018 – The New York Times

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    13 Stories That Captured Photography in 2018 Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/lens/best-stories-photography-2018.html Because photography touches most everything, our topics have been far-ranging — from the environment, cyberbullying and immigration to race, gender and class. We have written about famed photographers like Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks and Diane Arbus as well as emerging image makers like Citlali Fabián, Fethi…

  • 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’ – The New York Times

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    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…

  • A Fresh Look at Gordon Parks’ Photo Essay “Harlem Gang Leader” – Feature Shoot

    A Fresh Look at Gordon Parks’ Photo Essay “Harlem Gang Leader” – Feature Shoot

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    A Fresh Look at Gordon Parks’ Photo Essay “Harlem Gang Leader” – Feature Shoot Gordon Parks: Red Jackson, Harlem, New York, 1948; gelatin silver print; 19 1/2 x 15 3/4 in. Gordon Parks: Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948; gelatin silver print with applied pigment;… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2017/11/a-fresh-look-at-gordon-parks-photo-essay-harlem-gang-leader/ 1948 was a watershed year in the…

  • Photographer Gordon Parks returned home to Kansas to retrace his childhood and find classmates, 24 years after leaving – The Washington Post

    Photographer Gordon Parks returned home to Kansas to retrace his childhood and find classmates, 24 years after leaving – The Washington Post

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    Photographer Gordon Parks returned home to Kansas to retrace his childhood and find classmates, 24 years after leaving A stunning personal record of Parks’ childhood in rarely seen images, and a groundbreaking account of segregation in America before the Civil Rights movement. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/07/31/photographer-gordon-parks-returned-home-to-kansas-to-retrace-his-childhood-and-find-classmates-24-years-after-leaving/ Throughout his illustrious career, photographer Gordon Parks would don…

  • Gordon Parks’ Return to Fort Scott | American Photo

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    Gordon Parks’ Return to Fort Scott Rarely seen photographs from an unpublished LIFE article intertwine the story of the Great Migration with Parks’ personal history

  • ‘Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument’

    ‘Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument’

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    Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/10/slide-show-gordon-parks-the-making-of-an-argument.html#slide_ss_0=1 “Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument,” a recently released book and concurrent exhibition presented by The Gordon Parks Foundation and the New Orleans Museum of Art, is a critical examination of this assignment, after which Parks became Life’s first African-American staff photographer.

  • A Five-Volume Overview of Gordon Parks’s Life Work from Steidl

    A Five-Volume Overview of Gordon Parks’s Life Work from Steidl

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    Gordon Parks: ‘A Lasting Love’ A new five-volume set from Steidl presents an unparalleled survey of Gordon Parks’s career, and just in time for his 100th birthday. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/gordon-parks-a-lasting-love/ Though he was quite famous for being a filmmaker and the first African-American photographer for Life magazine, until this year, the 100th anniversary of…

  • Gordon Parks’s Alternative Civil Rights Photographs

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    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…

  • Empathetic Portraits of a Segregated Nation

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    Lens Blog: And now we get to sample the result in a gem of a book, “Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Gordon Parks,” just published by the Library of Congress and the Giles publishing house. It presents 50 of Mr. Parks’s F.S.A. photos from the library’s holdings. The editor, Amy Pastan, has found many…

  • Tribute to Gordon Parks

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    From The Digital Journalist, a series of remembrances and photo galleries on the late photographer Gordon Parks: We at The Digital Journalist want to acknowledge that with his death on March 7th of this year not only has photography lost a giant, but so too has humanity, so we offer in this issue a mix…

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    Artist- Michael Slack Game Art – I am 8 bit Photography – Preparations for Khmer Rouge trials, Cambodia, by John Vink, Magnum Photos NYT – The Wild Web of China NYT – Gordon Parks, Master of the Camera, Dies at 93