![]() One of the rare African American photojournalists in the field, Parks was frequently given magazine assignments involving social issues that his white colleagues were not asked to cover. In 1948, Gordon Parks (1912–2006) became the first African American photographer to be hired full time by LIFE magazine. Gordon Parks, one of the most celebrated African American artists of his time, is the subject of this exhibition of groundbreaking photographs of Fort Scott, Kansas-focusing on the realities of life under segregation during the 1940s, but also relating to Parks’s own fascinating life story. ![]() ![]() Conservation and Collections Management. ![]()
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