Langston Hughes, Chicago
December 1941
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 33.34 × 26.99 cm (13 1/8 × 10 5/8 in.) sheet: 33.34 × 26.99 cm (13 1/8 × 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Avalon Fund
Accession Number
2019.17.1
About the Artist
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks (1912–2006), born the youngest of fifteen children to a Kansas tenant farmer and his wife in segregated Fort Scott, overcame a childhood marked by poverty, racism, and tragedy—including his mother's death at age fourteen—to become one of America's most influential chroniclers of Black life. Entirely self-taught after purchasing his first camera in 1937, inspired by Farm Security Admin...