Join organizing curator, Philip Brookman (Consulting Curator, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), as he discusses Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950 and its focus on the formative decade of Gordon Parks’s 60-year career.
Image: Gordon Parks, Washington, D.C. Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman, with three grandchildren and her adopted daughter, July 1942. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 18.3 × 23.7 cm (7 3/16 × 9 5/16 in.) mount: 24.1 × 29.2 cm (9 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.), Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.