Gordon Parks/Courtesy of The Gordon Parks Foundation In the late 1940s, Life magazine published a multipage photo spread titled "Harlem Gang Leader," depicting the gang wars that had taken control ...

LOS ANGELES — Five months after the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, Gordon Parks, the famous photographer for Life magazine, found himself on a plane to Rio de Janeiro. As he cruised ...

Over 200 prints by renowned Black photographer Gordon Parks now lie in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s collections. The prints, which constitute one of the largest collections of his ...

On November 1, 1948, Life magazine published the photo essay “Harlem Gang Leader,” introducing their readers to the photography of Gordon Parks and to his subject, the seventeen-year-old ...

Gordon Parks was the first prominent Black photojournalist and deserves our attention. And he gets some in “Gordon Parks: I, too, am America” at the Albany Institute of History and Art.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt had the perfect way to celebrate his wife Tasha McCauley’s birthday during an appearance on The Tonight Show on Wednesday, June 19.The (500) Days of Summer star, 43 ...

The Gordon Parks Foundation's annual gala is set to be another star-studded event. The 2025 event, which celebrates multidisciplinary artist and talented photographer Gordon Parks' legacy, will ...

NEW YORK, NY – MAY 23: Maya Samuelsson and Marcus Samuelsson attend The Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street on May 23, 2023 in New York.

One of the country's most celebrated photographers, Gordon Parks used his camera as a weapon against racial injustice. Howard University has recently acquired more than 250 of Parks' images.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is crazy about his “Lover.” The Inception star covered Taylor Swift’s hit song on the Wednesday, June 19, episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in a sweet ...

In 1952, Parks was assigned to Life magazine's Paris bureau, where he would go on to photograph French life and fashion. Left: Untitled, 1978. Right: Director Spike Lee.