The exhibition celebrates the 70th anniversary of Gordon Parks' groundbreaking color photography of the segregated South, featuring lesser-known works and iconic images photographed between 1954-1956.
| Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation An exhibition commemorates the 70th anniversary of the landmark publication of Gordon Parks ’ color images of the segregated South inis is on view until June 13 at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta in partnership with The Gordon Parks Foundation.magazine in the summer of 1956.
The exhibit also includes both lesser-known works and some of Parks’ most recognized images, includingThe exhibition is curated by Dawoud Bey and is presented as part of a yearlong initiative focused on Parks’ influence on contemporary Black artists and writers. It is informed by Bey’s 2022 essay “The South in Color” from the expanded edition ofIn the essay, Bey writes about Parks’ artistic approach and states that “these photographs deserve as much consideration for the quality of their making as the mission that brought them into being.
”photographed members of the Thornton family and their extended relatives, including the Causey and Tanner families, during this assignment. He used a handheld twin-lens Rolleiflex camera and chose to shoot in color, producing carefully composed square-format images that define the series. Bey describes how Parks’ “deliberate choices of tool, material, and sensibility lend the Black Southern presence, often under siege, a sense of lives fully and expressively lived.
” Bey’s curatorial approach is presented as offering a renewed perspective on Parks’ work and artistic method.
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