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Six Pictures: Gordon Parks’ “Atmosphere of Crime”

Six Pictures: Gordon Parks’ “Atmosphere of Crime”

A timely installation at New York’s Museum of Modern Art looks at the way photographers—Gordon Parks chief among them—look at crime.

How do you photograph crime? If you’re the police, you snap dead-eye, nearly defamatory mug shots of the accused. If you’re Weegee, you turn your flash on the sidewalk-splayed victims. But if you’re Gordon Parks, Life magazine’s groundbreaking photog...

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