Salon: Gordon Parks
- Lecture
Washington, D.C. Government charwoman (detail), July 1942. Gordon Parks (American, 1912–2006). Gelatin silver print; 23.7 x 18.2 cm. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., LC-USF34-013407-C [P&P]. Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph
About The Event
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 focuses on the first and most formative decade of the groundbreaking artist’s 60-year career, beginning with his full immersion in the Chicago Black Renaissance. In this salon program, Gillian Johns (opens in a new tab) (Associate Professor of English at Oberlin College) will join in conversation with Daniel Gray-Kontar (opens in a new tab) (Executive Artistic Director of Twelve Literary Arts) and Tonika Johnson (opens in a new tab) (Chicago-based photographer and activist) for a conversation about how Parks influenced and was inspired by a network of creative and intellectual figures, including Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and Langston Hughes, and the ongoing influence and relevance of Parks’s work today.