i have featured images by photographer Gordon Parks many times on the blog, but have never done a post dedicated solely to his work. which is weird, considering he’s such a legend. he was the first…
Art critic Wallace Ludel reviews
A new book celebrates Gordon Parks’ images of a racially divided south, high fashion, and poverty in New York City
Gordon Parks documented issues that have long been a part of the US. Andrew Dickson looks at the work of a man who saw his camera as a weapon, yet took photos with the eye of a poet.
i have featured images by photographer Gordon Parks many times on the blog, but have never done a post dedicated solely to his work. which is weird, considering he’s such a legend. he was the first…
See images of work by Gordon Parks held in the Dean Collection, the largest private holdings of the photographer’s work.
i have featured images by photographer Gordon Parks many times on the blog, but have never done a post dedicated solely to his work. which is weird, considering he’s such a legend. he was the first…
A two-part exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery sheds light on relatively obscure works by the master photographer, from colorful fashion imagery to portraits of Muhammad Ali, Helen Frankenthaler, and others.
Gordon Parks' pictures of showgirls matter simply because they're beautiful, and because they offer, as LIFE magazine noted, "living, breathing proof of the poet's point that beauty is its own excuse for being." His photos, in the end, is not that they offer oblique commentary on the drudgery of labor, or that they somehow reveal something about “show people” that we never knew. Parks’ color pictures are at-once charged with emotion and curiously prosaic. These are, after all, women with a job to do: the fact that they do it in front of avid audiences, while largely undressed, only makes the evident tedium of the work all the more poignant. (Photos by Gordon Parks—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
The multitalented Gordon Parks used photography in a bold new way that celebrated the realities of everyday life, confronting racism by documenting his subjects’ inner lives. The multitalented Gordon Parks used photography in a bold new way that celebrated the realities of everyday life shared by all of us, confronting racism by documenting his subjects’ inner lives.
Gordon Parks' pictures of showgirls matter simply because they're beautiful, and because they offer, as LIFE magazine noted, "living, breathing proof of the poet's point that beauty is its own excuse for being." His photos, in the end, is not that they offer oblique commentary on the drudgery of labor, or that they somehow reveal something about “show people” that we never knew. Parks’ color pictures are at-once charged with emotion and curiously prosaic. These are, after all, women with a job to do: the fact that they do it in front of avid audiences, while largely undressed, only makes the evident tedium of the work all the more poignant. (Photos by Gordon Parks—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Shot by Gordon Parks in the summer of 1943 at Camp Fern Rock in New York, this low-angle photograph captures the strength and serene stature of camper Loretta Gyles as she aims her arrow. While Parks often used his time with the Farm Security Administration (FSA) to document widespread segregation, his summer camp series endeavored to subvert the implicitly racist imagery often associated with outdoor recreation and the American wilderness. The concept of summer camp originally emerged as a retreat for young white males, but interracial camps like Camp Fern Rock and Camp Nathan Hale were rare microcosms intended to advance integration and equality in the outdoors. At these camps, Gordon created images of black and white children eating, washing, and playing together that directly mirrored the settings of some of the most antagonistic racial unrest of the time, including restaurants, restrooms, and recreational areas. Gyles is cast as a dominant, independent figure, confident yet calm against the often racially-charged and contentious backdrop of a thicket of trees. Parks’s photograph shows a typical American teen thriving in social and spatial equity.
Collection 1940s-1970s, Room 409 From ‘New art from wall to wall’ ongoing Gordon Parks (American, 1912-2006) Shooting Victim in Cook County Morgue, Chicago, Illinois 1957 …
Gordon Parks' pictures of showgirls in 1958 offer "living, breathing proof of the poet's point that beauty is its own excuse for being."
Ted Forbes is currently the Manager of Multimedia for the Dallas Museum of Art. He creates works in a variety of mediums including photography, documentary video, interactive design and other forms. He is the host and producer of The Art of Photography YouTube Channel and podcast, in which he spe
TIME takes a look at the photography of the groundbreaking and multi-talented artist Gordon Parks
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La segregazione razziale negli Stati Uniti degli anni cinquanta raccontata da un reportage di Gordon Parks. Leggi
Eartha Kitt (1927 – 2008) was an American actress, singer, cabaret star, dancer, stand-up comedienne, activist and voice artist, known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby", which were both US Top 10 hits. Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world". Here, we selected 30 stunning black and white portraits of Eartha Kitt taken by various photographers from the 1950s. Eartha Kitt, by Ernst Haas NYC, 1952 Eartha Kitt, NYC, 1952 Eartha Kitt by Gordon Parks, 1952 Eartha Kitt by Gordon Parks, 1952 Eartha Kitt by J. Kriegsmann Eartha Kitt by Harry Hammond, 1958 Eartha Kitt by Phillipe Halsman Eartha Kitt by Gordon Parks, June 1952 Eartha Kitt by George Silk, 1955 Eartha Kitt by George Silk, 1955 Eartha Kitt arrives at London’s Paddington Station for a two-month cabaret engagement in 1960. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) Eartha Kitt and James Dean by Dennis Stock Eartha Kitt and James Dean by Dennis Stock Eartha Kitt in her dressing room backstage at New Faces of 1952. (Image by Bettmann/CORBIS) Eartha Kitt as Catwoman 30th May 1956: American singer Eartha Kitt at the Mayfair Hotel, London, with her cats 'Mishak' and 'Willow'. (Photo by J. Wilds/Keystone/Getty Images) Eartha Kitt in a recording studio circa 1955. (Photo by Metronome/Getty Images) Eartha Kitt in a recording studio circa 1955. (Photo by Metronome/Getty Images) Eartha Kitt by Phillipe Halsman Eartha Kitt, 1958 Eartha Kitt hugs Nat King Cole, playing the piano in the role of W.C Hardy, in scene from the 1958 movies "Saint Louis Blues" Eartha Kitt by Gordon Parks, June 1952 Eartha Kitts dances in a televised treatment of Oscar Wilde's play Salomé, 1955 Eartha Kitt backstage, 1959 Eartha Kitt, 1959
