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Gordon Parks’ View of America Across Three Decades

Two new books and one expanded edition of the photographs of Gordon Parks look at the work of the famed photographer from three decades of his career: the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Taken together, the books show that Parks’ humanistic commitment to exposing the effects of race and class in America never wavered.

Gordon Parks’ place among the greats in photography is undisputed. Parks used his cameras as a “weapon” against racism, intolerance, and poverty, as his most famous quote states. But it was not just a quote for Parks. Rather, it was a precedent that...

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