Windows
1993, printed later
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silver dye bleach print
Dimensions
image: 40 × 53.5 cm (15 3/4 × 21 1/16 in.) sheet: 60.8 × 76.2 cm (23 15/16 × 30 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Accession Number
2016.117.261
Art Historical Context
Gordon Parks, a trailblazing African American photographer filmmaker, and writer (1912–2006), captured the dignity and struggles of everyday life throughout his illustrious career. *Windows* (1993, printed later) his late-period work, created when Parks was reflecting on decades of documenting social justice, civil rights, and human resilience. As a master photojournalist who broke barriers at *Life* magazine, Parks infused his images with empathy and visual poetry, often turning the lens on overlooked communities. This striking silver dye bleach print—a sophisticated color process also known...
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...