Join other BMAV members and friends for a self-tour of the National Gallery of Art's exhibit,
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950. Those who are interested are invited to stay for lunch at the cafe.
Please RSVP to arrange for carpool or to meetup.
During the 1940s American photographer
Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught photographer making portraits and documenting everyday life in Saint Paul and Chicago to a visionary professional shooting for
Ebony,
Vogue,
Fortune, and
Life. For the first time, the formative decade of Parks’s 60-year career is the focus of an exhibition, which brings together 150 photographs and ephemera—including magazines, books, letters, and family pictures. The exhibition will illustrate how Parks’s early experiences at the Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, and Standard Oil (New Jersey) as well as his close relationships with
Roy Stryker,
Langston Hughes,
Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, helped shape his groundbreaking style. A fully illustrated
catalog, with extensive new research and previously unpublished images, will accompany the exhibition.