Photography - The Gordon Parks Foundation

The initial work of Gordon Parks as a professional photographer took place at a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota. Enabling him to take photos of local newspapers, in this professional experience, urges the park to explore and record the poor southern part of Chicago. This series of photographs will capture the Rosenwald Fund photography scholarship allowing him to work with Roy Stryker's famous farm safety office (FSA) photographer team. When the FSA was absorbed by the War Information Bureau (OWI), Parks had the opportunity to take a picture of the legendary Tascy Airmen Fighter Pilot. Parks' experience in fashion and documentary photos joined him in 1948 to combine his style and make him the asset of Life magazine. He will continue to serve as fashion photographer and photographic documentary. Until the early 1970s

The Gordon Park Foundation permanently preserves the works of Gordon Park, which is open to the public through exhibitions, books and electronic media, and art and education to promote Gordon's "participation in better living and a better world" We support activities. ""

The 26 photos of Parks were originally published in the article of life titled "The Restraints: Open and Hidden" in September 1956. 200 negatives were found at the bottom. Storage Box Now, the whole series was first released at Gordon Parks. Sixty years after the photographs were taken, these pictures remained relevant as ever and provided an essential background for a new ethnic war in America. They comprehensively portrayed the historical precedent of "New Jim Crow" and the controversy over Michael Brown and Eric Ghana's shootout. Even though the young generation thinks of loneliness, these pictures tell about a unique story about how it affects the real life of real people.

In the spring of 2012, six years after Parks died, a box labeled "Isolation Series" was displayed in the storage room of the Gordon Parks Foundation along with over 200 color transparencies. Well, at the exhibition at the Atlanta art museum, we choose from 30 rediscovery images and combine it with 10 original. In the past few years, several museums have held Parkes' work exhibitions highlighting unpublished works on the whole picture and all aspects of the editing process. At the New Orleans Art Museum, we held an exhibition called "Gordon Park: Production of Discussion" to explore the editing process behind his first LIFE photography work "Harlem Gang Leader". And frustration. . The exhibition shows some truncated and dark images, and everything decided to emphasize certain emotions or information.