Gordon Parks Artwork

Gordon parks is a photographer known for documenting the african american experience of racism and poverty from 1940s to 1970s.

Gordon parks artwork.

View gordon parks s 189 artworks on artnet. See available photographs prints and multiples and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices. Parks faced aggressive.

See available photographs prints and multiples and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. In mortuary red and herbie levy study wounds of maurice gaines a buddy who was found dying one night on a harlem sidewalk caption from life. Gordon roger alexander buchanan parks was born on november 30 1912 in fort scott kansas. Documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s particularly in issues of civil rights poverty and african americans and in glamour photography.

Considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century gordon parks was a self taught photographer filmmaker writer and composer. Elevate your space with framed prints unframed prints canvas prints acrylic prints or aluminum prints. Gordon parks gordon parks photography features a range of subjects from fashion to poverty making him one of the most provactive mid century photographers in the u s. Gordon parks was a self taught photographer writer composer and filmmaker.

Gordon parks self portrait 1941 gelatin silver print 50 8 40 64 cm 20 16 in private collection courtesy of and copyright the gordon parks foundation. Gordon parks was a self taught photographer writer composer and filmmaker. His father jackson parks was a vegetable farmer and the family lived modestly. The youngest of 15 children gordon parks was born in 1912 d.

2006 in fort scott kansas. View gordon parks s 189 artworks on artnet. He is best known for chronicling the african american experience in powerful poetic photographs. Guaranteed lowest price fast shipping free returns and custom framing options on all prints.

As the first famous pioneer among black filmmakers he was the. He said my purpose has been to communicate to somehow evoke the same response from a seamstress in harlem or a housewife in paris. Gelatin silver print the gordon parks foundation artwork images.