GORDON PARKS: SEGREGATION STORY

In the summer following the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Life magazine sent Gordon Parks to Alabama to document the daily realities of African Americans living under Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation. Over the course of several weeks in summer 1956, he photographed an extended African-American family, the Causeys, at home and work in the rural South. The resulting color photographs are among Parks most powerful and groundbreaking images, and have since become iconic representations of the conditions that led to the civ...[Llegir més]