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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Gordon Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, the youngest of fifteen children. He worked tirelessly to make a name for himself. He became the first Black photographer on the staff of Life magazine ...

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.

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.