Gordon Parks

Installation view, Bisa Butler: Materfamilias, Gordon Parks Foundation. Works: Praise God, 2014, Wedding Portrait, 2001, Colored Entrance (after Department Store, Mobile, Alabama by Gordon Parks, 1956), 2023
Bisa Butler on the Magic of Quilting
The Gordon Parks Foundation recently opened Bisa Butler: Materfamilias, an exhibition of new textile based works by Bisa Butler. This show, the culmination of Butler’s 2022 Gordon Parks…
Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948.
Howard Greenberg Gallery Celebrates 40 Years
This autumn, Howard Greenberg Gallery, one of the world’s leading galleries for classic and modern photography, celebrates its 40th year with a move to two new locations.
Audience watches movie wearing 3-D spectacles, 1952
Life Magazine and the Power of Photography
Life magazine visualized a distinctly mid-20th-century American worldview and fundamentally shaped modern ideas about photography.
Gordon Parks (American, 1912–2006), Untitled (The da Silva Family), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Negative, 1976
Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story
On view July 9-November 10, 2019 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story explores one of the most important photo essays Parks produced for Life magazine and traces…
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Gordon Parks' Formative Years, now at the National Gallery
Washington, DC—Within just a decade, Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught portrait photographer and photojournalist in Saint Paul and Chicago to a visionary professional working in New…