The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Red's Younger Brother at Home, Harlem, New York

Red's Younger Brother at Home, Harlem, New York

1948
(American, 1912–2006)
Image: 22.1 x 33.4 cm (8 11/16 x 13 1/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)
Courtesy and copyright the Gordon Parks Foundation
Location: not on view

Description

A writer, musician, film director, and photographer, Parks was one of the most important and influential photojournalists of the 20th century. With talent, ambition, and persistence, Parks took portraits, covered the fashion industry, and documented events and people around the world. He is best known for photographs dealing with the social fabric of African Americans. From one of his early and important photo-essays for Life magazine, this intimate portrait of a young gang leader in Harlem features Parks at his best-at once lyrical, poignant, political, and beautiful.
  • Brookman, Philip, Anjuli Lebowitz, Richard J. Powell, Deborah Willis, Maurice Berger, and Elizabeth Doorly. Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work, 1940-1950. Washington, District of Columbia : National Gallery of Art ; Pleasantville, New York. : The Gordon Parks Foundation ; Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2018. Reproduced: p. 184, pl. 133; mentioned: p. 281
  • Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (November 4, 2018-February 18, 2019); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 23-June 9, 2019); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (August 31-December 29, 2019).
    Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010).
    The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07) and the Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittburgh, PA (10/3/2009 - 1/3/2010); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.
    CMA Members Magazine (January 2002), p. 6-7, repr. p. 7.
    Gordon Parks: Photojournalism. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 2001-February 27, 2002).
    Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; December 22, 2001- February 27, 2002. "Gordon Parks: Photojournalism". No catalogue.
  • {{cite web|title=Red's Younger Brother at Home, Harlem, New York|url=false|author=Gordon Parks|year=1948|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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