Delaware Art Museum
Kentmere Parkway Wilmington
11 October 2008-4 January 2009
Gordon Parks, who died in 2006 at age 93, documented crime and poverty, as well as its opposite—glamour. The first African American staff photographer for Life magazine, Parks tackled the harsh truth and dignity of the black urban and rural poor in the United States.
He was also a major fashion photographer, providing spreads for respected magazines such as Vogue.
In addition to his documentary and fashion photography, Parks was a filmmaker, author, musician, and publisher, a renaissance man whose career embodied the American ideal of equality and whose art was bound up with his personal life.
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