How Gordon Parks Documented Racism In America
The photographer's A Man Becomes Invisible and Segregation Story series are on view at the Weinstein Gallery in Minnesota.
While on assignment for Life, Gordon Parks covered the chilling, brutal truth of racial and economic inequality in America. He was the magazine's first black staff photographer, and he shot his share of entertainers and celebrities. But his socially driven documentary work was the best, like a series about an impoverished family in New York and a photo essay on a Harlem gang leader.