Gordon Parks (American, 1912-2006), Two Lingerie Photos

Each a gelatin silver print, mid-20th century, framed. Sight sizes 12 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 17 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. Gordon Parks was a photographer, filmmaker, and writer who became the first African American staff photographer at Life magazine in 1948. Through his photojournalism, he documented racial segregation, poverty, and the Civil Rights Movement, photographing figures including Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali. Alongside his documentary work, Parks was an accomplished fashion photographer whose images appeared in Vogue, Glamour, and Life magazines. Some creasing and minor associated fleabites to the sheet, not examined outside the frame.

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