Gordon Parks, Untitled (Malcolm X), 1963

From the Cleveland Museum of Art:

A writer, musician, film director, and photographer, Gordon Parks (born 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas) is one of the most important and influential photojournalists of the 20th century. With talent, ambition, and persistence, Parks took portraits, covered the fashion industry, and documented events and people around the world. He is best known for photographs dealing with the social fabric of African Americans. This exhibition features vintage prints from three of his most important series: life in Harlem in the late 1940s; the Black Muslim and Civil Rights movements of the 1960s; and portraits of the charismatic Black Muslim leader Malcolm X (1925-1965) and prizefighter Muhammad Ali (born 1942). These photographs feature Parks at his best-at once lyrical, poignant, political, and beautiful.

 

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