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

In 1950, Gordon Parks – one of the most celebrated African American photographers – returned home to Fort Scott, Kansas to track down his old schoolmates and show the impact of segregation on their lives

source We love photography! So much so that we are not often found without our camera. Photography can illuminate stories, bring life to still moments, evoke emotions and spring forth change. Gor…

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, founded originally as Young Hoffman Gallery in 1976, specializes in international contemporary art in all medias, and art that is conceptually, formally, or socio-politically based.

The photographer who found both the pride and the prejudice.

In the spring of 1950, Gordon Parks, the first African-American photographer for Life Magazine, returned to his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas. On assignment for the magazine, Parks photographed his middle…

Available for sale from Robert Klein Gallery, Gordon Parks, Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama (Boys Fishing 37.048) (1956), Archival digital pigment print, 14 × 14 in

Each week, the Guardian Weekend magazine's editorial team choose a picture, or set of pictures, that particularly tickle their fancy. This week, their choice is a selection of images from photographer Gordon Parks

aichlee: “ A Great Day in Harlem - Art Kane, 1958 A Great Day in Harlem Survivors - Gordon Parks, 1996 lovely & sad. ” Wow.

One of the most celebrated African-American artists of his time, Gordon Parks, is the subject of a photography exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts that focuses on the realities of life under segregation during the 1940s. WGBH's Jared Bowen reports.

Gordon Parks Harlem Street at the Lord’s Cross, 1943 From Bare Witness by Gordon Parks

Ruby Dee and Juanita Hardy in New York, New York, March 1959, photographed by Gordon Parks

Place de la Concorde, Paris, 1950 by Gordon Parks

Harlem, New York City, a 1952 photo by Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks Harlem Street at the Lord’s Cross, 1943 From Bare Witness by Gordon Parks