Step 9:  More Gordon Parks Photographs

Below are thumbnail images that show you a collection of Parks' photographs   Feel free to scroll through the miniaturized images. When you find one you like, click on the picture to see a larger image.   Use your browser's "Back" button to return to the thumbnails.  You will choose one to write about for your first class assignment.

Department Store, Birmingham, Alabama, 1956

Ella Watson and Her Grandchildren 1942

Children and Doll, 1942

Image, Source: intermediary roll film

Cleaning a Government Office at Night  August 1942

View from Ella Watson's Window

 Washington--Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman, leaves for work at 4:30 p.m.

Cotton (year?)


Outside the drugstore on a thousand Midwest streets (Galesburg, Illinois) , 1948
From "What's Playing at the Grove?," FORTUNE, August 1948
 

Gordon Parks took this picture of three youngsters from
the Frederick Douglass housing project in June, 1942.

 

 

Images in second row from "America in the Great Depression" photo collectionLibrary of Congress American Memory Collection (http://memory.loc.gov/)

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