Gordon Parks

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

LaToya Ruby Frazier on Gordon Parks’s Red ...

by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gordon Parks and the writer Ralph Ellison collaborated to show that Harlem is everywhere.

Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks, and Harlem
by Michal Raz-Russo, Art Institute of Chicago and Dr. Steven Zucker

Gordon Parks and the writer Ralph Ellison collaborated to show that Harlem is everywhere.

Gordon Parks, Off on My Own (Harlem, ...
by Michal Raz-Russo, Art Institute of Chicago and Dr. Steven Zucker

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