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A preview of ARTS Southeast’s upcoming photography exhibition, Tomorrow and Yesterday, gives a sense that the Starland-based incubator is on the precipice of bigger things.
The exhibition of Gordon Parks’ work in London aims to reposition him as more than a photojournalist, and instead as an artist against social injustice Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, ...
“He really paved the way,” Peter Kunhardt, Jr., a family friend and executive director of the Gordon Parks Foundation, says of Parks. Tenement Dwellers, Chicago, Illinois, 1950 by Gordon Parks ...
...By Gordon Parks. A look at the life and work of iconic photographer Gordon Parks, and his cultural impact through the lens of three contemporary photographers.
Events at the Gordon Parks Museum will wrap up Monday on Martin Luther King, Junior Day, with a showing of the film “Martin” at 10:30 that morning – which is a ballet tribute film directed ...
But for Karen Haas ’78, what began with a casual phone inquiry about a single photo by the late photographer Gordon Parks ultimately led to a stunning new book of Parks’ unpublished photos from 65 ...
It was the end of the evening at Cipriani 42nd Street, dinner long served, and Lee was onstage to present the last honoree at the 2024 Gordon Parks Foundation awards gala. While Lee was feeling ...
A century ago Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Kansas. Now his photography is on show in Washington, DC. Parks, within a decade, went from a self-taught photographer to ...
Colin Kaepernick, Amy Sherald, and more were honored during the Gordon Parks Foundation gala. Gala season in New York is well underway, and one Black organization celebrating both art and activism ...
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Foundation celebrates the enduring ...
When Gordon Parks arrived in Washington, D.C. in 1942, he was 29 years old, with a past defined by his black skin and a future in his camera bag. He was starting out as a professional photographer ...