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Gordon Parks
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On Suffering and Sympathy
What is the distance between sympathy and action? How do we travel from one to the other?
Harlem Is Nowhere
A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago takes visitors through the collaborative efforts of writer Ralph Ellison and photographer Gordon Parks: In some ways, their collaboration is akin…
History in Color
At Hyperallergic, Chris Cobb explores new photography exhibits featuring over 200 color photos from a recently rediscovered collection by Gordon Parks. The collection dates from 1956, when Parks was commissioned by…