![]() Gelatin silver print, courtesy of and © The Gordon Parks Foundation. Gordon Parks - Untitled, 1966, printed 2022. ![]() This October, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston has opened an exhibition Gordon Parks: Stokely Carmichael and Black Power, centered on the figure of a prominent Civil Rights activist, Stokely Carmichael. Alongside photography, this man also expressed himself through music, writing, and film. Coming from a segregated environment, he played enormous persistence and devotion by leading photojournalism on a new lane to showcase the matters of race inequity, social justice, and the Black experience at large.Īs a Julius Rosenwald Fund fellow, Parks used all the opportunities given to present his socio-politically charged agenda on the scale from the Farm Security Administration to the magazines such as Ebony, Vogue, and Life. ![]() Among the highly esteemed American photographers is Gordon Parks, an outstanding chronicler of the oppressed communities. ![]()
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