Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, poses this question in an essay that opens an important new book of crime photos by the late Gordon Parks. “From the beginning, the ...

In the fight for Black liberation, African-American photographer, filmmaker, author and composer Gordon Parks (1912-2006) transformed storytelling into activism. “Finally, after a long search to find ...

Photographer Gordon Parks created an arresting visual essay about the experience of segregation in 1950, on the eve of the Civil Rights movement. It’s now on view in an exhibition at the Museum of ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A newly-released book highlights the groundbreaking life of Kansas-born photojournalist and filmmaker, Gordon Parks. "Grit and Grace: Gordon Parks," by Overland Park resident Ann ...

A posthumous anthology of photo essays by the curator and art historian reveals the “troubling reality” of prejudice and the power of images to “undermine the very concept of difference.” By Holly ...

The photographer’s A Man Becomes Invisible and Segregation Story series are on view at the Weinstein Gallery in Minnesota. “What makes them so wonderful and revolutionary is they’re just so ...

Before Cassius Clay took the name Muhammad Ali, he was a 22-year-old who’d been rechristened “the champ,” the greatest boxer in the world. Long-time Life magazine photojournalist and renaissance man ...

Gordon Parks (AP) -- Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with The Learning ...

A two-part exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery sheds light on relatively obscure works by the master photographer, from colorful fashion imagery to portraits of Muhammad Ali, Helen Frankenthaler, and ...

Legendary photographer Gordon Parks, who would have been 100 today, was a master of contradictions. His fashion photography captured the beauty and opulence of the 1940s and ’50s elite with carefully ...

David Parks hasn’t read many of the media accounts lauding his father, Gordon, since his death last March. He already knows what they say. “The thing is, all the stuff being written about him has been ...