Forgotten Gordon Parks Photos Document Segregation

[Damaso]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/arts/design/gordon-parks-photos-document-segregation.html

In 1950, Gordon Parks was the only African-American photographer working for Life magazine, a rising star who was gaining the power to call his own shots, and he proposed a cover story both highly political and deeply personal: to return to Fort Scott, Kan., the prairie town where he had grown up, to find his 11 classmates in a segregated middle school.

 

[rhl-oregon]

Thanks. Rich portraits. I wish I could say the story is timely, but at least it is an instructive reminder of how slowly and unwillingly things change unless we apply ourselves to changing them for everyone's best.

 

[jsrockit]

He doesn't get the credit he deserves IMO. Thanks for the article.

 

[Damaso]

He doesn't get the credit he deserves IMO. Thanks for the article.

You're welcome!

 

[x-ray]

The exhibition along with Leonard Freed is at the High Museum in Atlanta till June 7th. Im planning on driving down to see it.

 

[helen.HH]

just read the article in the Times... Superb Slideshow !

hope the Exhibition in Boston starting the 17 of January
will head to New York

 

[Thardy]

The exhibition along with Leonard Freed is at the High Museum in Atlanta till June 7th. Im planning on driving down to see it.

Yes, I think l will drive to Atlanta and see the exhibit myself.