Gordon parks photography

Elegantly dressed for the church on a Sunday, a mother and her daughter are posing underneath a bright red neon sign reading COLORED ENTRANCE. The powerful phot

Mr. Parks, perhaps more than any mid-20th-century photographer, understood how film and television conditioned the contemporary eye and mind.

A new book traces four decades of Gordon Parks’s career.

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Gordon Parks. Untitled, Chicago, Illinois. 1957. Gelatin silver print. 19 1/4 × 13" (48.9 × 33 cm). Gift of the Gordon Parks Foundation. 445.2019. © 2024 Gordon Parks Foundation. Photography

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See images of work by Gordon Parks held in the Dean Collection, the largest private holdings of the photographer’s work.

View Music--That Lordly Power (1993) By Parks Gordon; Silver print; 19 1/4x13 inches (48.9x33 cm.); Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

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