A pictorial presentation of 20th centurary American life captured by photographer Gordon Parks will be exhibited at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art through June 28.
A pictorial presentation of 20th centurary American life captured by photographer Gordon Parks will be exhibited at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art through June 28.
The exhibit, "Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks," features 73 works personally selected by Parks, who was the first Black hired by Life magazine. He was also the first major Black director with his big screen adaptation of his autobiography, "The Learning Tree," in 1963. Then in 1971, he directed the movie "Shaft."
His photojournalism includes Ella Watson posing with her mop and broom in front of the U.S. flag in "American Gothic" (1942), "Emerging Man coming from under a Harlem street" (1952), Malcolm X addressing a 1963 Black Muslim rally in Chicago, the fists of boxer Muhammad Ali following a 1966 victory, and exiled Black Panthers Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver in Algeria in 1970.
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