Fighting Racism with a Camera: Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks
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Photographer, musician, writer and film director, Gordon Parks remained best known for capturing the trials and joys of African Americans, in his photo-essays for Life magazine. I had known poverty firsthand, he once said, but there I learned how to fight its evil—along with the evil of racism—with a camera.

• Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning
• Alabama, Untitled
• Mary Macado, Mother of Isabeli Lopez, and Family
• Evening Wraps At Dawn, Park Avenue, 1956

(America viewed by Americans)

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(A Life in Books)