Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

Segregation Story is an exhibition of fifteen medium-scale photographs including never-before-published images originally part of a series photographed for a 1956 Life magazine photo-essay assignment, “The Restraints: Open and Hidden.” In it, Gordon Parks documented the everyday lives of an extended black family living in rural Alabama under Jim Crow segregation. This compelling series demonstrated that the ambitions, responsibilities and routines of this family were no different than those of white Americans, thus challenging the myth of racism.

All photographs © The Gordon Parks Foundation.

Galleries

Works

Gordon Parks
At Segregated Drinking Fountain, Mobile, Alabama,1956
2013
Archival pigment print, Ed. of 10
28 x 28 inches
34 1/4 x 33 1/3 inches (framed)

Gordon Parks
Department Store, Mobile, Alabama,1956
2013
Archival pigment print, Ed. of 7
34 x 34 inches
40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (framed)

Gordon Parks
Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956 (GPAR 0001)
2013
Archival pigment print, Ed. of 10
28 x 28 inches
34 1/4 x 33 1/3 inches (framed)

Gordon Parks
Store Front, Mobile, Alabama, 1956
2013
Archival pigment print, Ed. of 7
34 x 34 inches
40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (framed)

Gordon Parks
Outside Looking In, Mobile, Alabama,1956
2013
Archival pigment print, Ed. of 7
34 x 34 inches
40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (framed)

Gordon Parks
Willie Causey and Family, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956
2013
Archival pigment print, Edition of 7
34 x 34 inches
40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches framed

Gordon Parks
Untitled, Mobile, Alabama, 1956 (GPAR 0013)
2013
Archival pigment print, Ed. of 7
34 x 34 inches
40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (framed)

Gordon Parks
Untitled, Mobile, Alabama, 1956 (GPAR 0008)
2013
Archival pigment print, Ed. of 7
34 x 34 inches
40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (framed)

Gordon Parks
Mother and Children, Mobile, Alabama, 1956
2013
Archival pigment print, Ed. of 10
28 x 28 inches
34 1/4 x 33 1/3 inches (framed)

Gordon Parks
Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956 (GPAR 0006)
2013
Archival pigment print, Ed. of 7
34 x 34 inches
40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (framed)

Gordon Parks
Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956 (GPAR 0014)
2013
Archival pigment print, Ed. of 7
34 x 34 inches
40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (framed)

Gordon Parks
In-Home Barbershop, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956
2013
Archival pigment print, Ed. of 7
34 x 34 inches
40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (framed)

Gordon Parks
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton, Mobile, Alabama, 1956
2013
Archival pigment print, Edition of 7
34 x 34 inches
40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches framed

Gordon Parks
Untitled, Mobile, Alabama, 1956 (GPAR 0003)
2013
Archival pigment print, Edition of 7
34 x 34 inches
40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches framed

Gordon Parks
Untitled, Alabama, 1956
2013
Archival pigment print, Ed. of 7
34 x 34 inches
40 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (framed)

Galleries

Works

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