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Back to Fort Scott, 1950. Pool Hall, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1950. A year after Life hired him, the magazine sent Parks back to Fort Scott, Kansas, where he had spent his first 16 years, attending the town’s small segregated schools.
- The Gordon Parks Foundation
“Back to Fort Scott” was one of the earliest civil rights...
- Gordon Parks Foundation Gallery
On assignment for Life magazine in 1950, Gordon Parks...
- The Gordon Parks Foundation
“Back to Fort Scott” was one of the earliest civil rights assignments given to Parks after he became Life’s first African American staff photographer, and it inspired him to revisit his own childhood and search for his classmates from the all-Black Plaza School.
8 de abr. de 2017 · On assignment for Life magazine in 1950, Gordon Parks returned to his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas after twenty years away; the resulting body of work became perhaps the most personal in the photographer’s long career. Initially assigned to do a piece about school segregation, Parks tracked down his classmates from the all-black school he ...
Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott (January 17–September 13, 2015) traces Parks’ return to his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas and then to other Midwestern cities, to track down and photograph each of his childhood classmates.
28 de dic. de 2016 · The groundbreaking photographs in the exhibition “Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott” focus on the realities of life under segregation during the 1940s, but also relate to Parks’s own ...
24 de dic. de 2014 · BOSTON — In 1950, Gordon Parks was the only African-American photographer working for Life magazine, a rising star who was gaining the power to call his own shots, and he proposed a cover story...
Parks intended to revisit early memories of his birthplace, many involving serious racial discrimination, and to discover what had become of the 11 members of his junior...
