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Collection Online as of April 26, 2024

Untitled, Harlem, New York

Untitled, Harlem, New York

1967
(American, 1912–2006)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 16.2 x 24 cm (6 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 20.4 x 25.2 cm (8 1/16 x 9 15/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1994.278
Courtesy and copyright the Gordon Parks Foundation
Location: not on view

Description

Regarded as a major photojournalist, Gordon Parks has also earned considerable distinction as a writer, poet, novelist, composer, and filmmaker. In 1949 he was appointed a staff photographer for Life magazine and produced remarkable photo-essays on a wide range of personalities, events, and topics, including Winston Churchill, Paris fashions, Harlem street gangs, the civil rights movement, and South Africa. Photographed at an odd angle and through the bars of a bed frame, this poignant image depicts a young boy working on his homework in bed.
  • (G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY)
    December 6, 1994
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Parks, Gordon. The Cycle of Despair: The Negro and the City, A Harlem Family. LIFE Magazine, March 8, 1968. p. 15
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 266
  • 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).
    The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.
    CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."
    Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
  • {{cite web|title=Untitled, Harlem, New York|url=false|author=Gordon Parks|year=1967|access-date=26 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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