Celebrating Gordon Parks, a Pioneering Photographer of Black American Life

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A new, expanded edition of the documentary photographer’s Born Black arrives alongside an exhibition of his work at New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery

Although Parks is primarily known as a photographer and filmmaker, Born Black reveals how writing, for Parks, was “the most personal and intimate form of expression throughout his life”. Parks’s text is integral to the book’s power; in it, he offers elaboration and contemplation, revealing his complex relationship to race and the movements he observed. Within Parks’s images, one finds a clarity of truth, a sheer honesty, and an undeniable love of humanity.

In his legendary Lecture on Pictures, Frederick Douglass declared: “Pictures, like songs, should be left to make their own way in the world. All they can reasonably ask of us is that we place them on the wall, in the best light, and for the rest allow them to speak for themselves.” Parks knew when and how to let his images speak, and thankfully, fifty-three years later, they still do. Gordon Parks: Born Black is on view at Jack Shainman Gallery New York from March 7 to April 13, 2024.

 

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