Segregation Story

In September 1956, Life issued a photo article entitled "Restrictions: Openness and Hiddenness" by Gordon Parks and recorded the daily activities of African-American families living in rural South Africa under the isolation of Jim Crow did. And ceremonies. One of the most powerful pictures depicts Joanne Thornton Wilson and her niece Shirley Anne Kirksey standing in front of the theater in Mobil, Alabama, this picture becomes an anti-ethnic person in the park It was. A powerful "preferred weapon" in the fight of doctrine. And isolated. Ultimately we released 26 pictures in Life, some of them were exhibited during his lifetime, but most of the works of Parks were thought to have been lost. Five years after the death of Parks, in 2011 the Gordon Park Foundation presents over 70 color transparencies at the bottom of the old storage box labeled "Isolation series", which was first published at "Isolation Story" I discovered.

Gordon Parks is the first African-American photographer hired by Life magazine, "Divorce story" is an important point of his career and introduces the lonely life experience of Mobil in Alabama to audiences throughout the country doing. The art work of the park stands out in the history of civil rights photography. In particular, they are color images of intimate everyday life, showing the achievements and inequities experienced by the Thornton family. Despite being geographically and economically, real estate is the basic theme of many images. The park uses an unforgettable delicacy in his work and interlocks with elegance, playfulness, community, and joy due to strife, repression and inequality. A hand-drawn "color only" logo is hanging beside the entrance and water dispenser, pastoral townscape.

Charlayne Hunter - Gault, the first black woman to attend Athens University in Athens, and a friend of Parks' s, used a personal approach to explain her about her teens. Isolation experience at Atlanta and Athene In her article, we can glimpse the dark life of the southern city during this time. Hunter - Gault remembered raising the long stairs to colored seats in the Fox Theater in Atlanta and strong support for the community. Pride feeling. She shared a drive to the unbearable Atlanta after a few hours visit from this pig's ears, and color bathroom to want to cook in the country life smell and taste, sandwiches.