LaToya Ruby Frazier on Gordon Parks’s Red Jackson

Contemporary artist LaToya Ruby Frazier discusses the dignity and complexity given a Harlem gang leader in this photographic portrait.

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Title Red Jackson, Harlem, New York
Artist(s) Gordon Parks
Dates 1948
Places North America / United States
Period, Culture, Style Modernisms / Civil Rights era
Artwork Type Photograph
Material
Technique Gelatin silver process

Cite this page as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "LaToya Ruby Frazier on Gordon Parks’s Red Jackson," in Smarthistory, January 20, 2021, accessed March 26, 2025, https://smarthistory.org/latoya-ruby-frazier-on-gordon-parkss-red-jackson/.