GORDON PARKS THE FLAVIO STORY

This book explores a once-popular picture story by Gordon Parks and the extraordinary chain of events it prompted. Published in Life magazine in June 1961 as Poverty: Freedoms Fearful Foe, this empathetic photo-essay profiled the da Silva family, living in a hi llside favela near a wealthy enclave of Rio de Janeiro. Focused primarily on the eldest son Flavio, an industrious 12-year-old suffe ring from crippling asthma, Parks story elicited more than 3,000 letters and $25,000 in donations from Life readers to help the fam ily and the ...[Read more]