The exhibition of Gordon Parks’ work in London aims to reposition him as more than a photojournalist, and instead as an artist against social injustice Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, ...

A century ago Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Kansas. Now his photography is on show in Washington, DC. Parks, within a decade, went from a self-taught photographer to ...

One of his former classmates was living in a tenement in Chicago, as shown in this untitled photograph from 1950. “He really paved the way,” Peter Kunhardt, Jr., a family friend and executive ...

GalleryKnown for his photographs of the civil rights movement, Gordon Parks spent two years in the ... before discovering photography, rather late in life. His name then quickly circulated among ...

Malcolm X (in New York City in 1962 publicizing alleged police brutality) continued the fight Gordon Parks/ NPG ... by the International Center for Photography in New York City, will travel ...

The Foundation celebrates the enduring legacy of Gordon Parks ... Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, Parks was drawn to photography as a young man. Despite his lack of ...