Gordon Parks
in ‘Ralph Ellison: Photographer’ at The Gordon Parks Foundation, New York
11 December 2024 – 7 February 2025

Gordon Parks, ‘The Invisible Man, Harlem, New York’, 1952, 40.6 x 50.8 cm © The Gordon Parks Foundation
Gordon Parks’s work is featured in an exhibition ‘Ralph Ellison: Photographer’. Ellison is best known for his groundbreaking 1952 novel ‘Invisible Man’. Within months of the novel’s publication, Parks and Ellison collaborated on the lauded series ‘A Man Becomes Invisible’ for Life magazine. The exhibition includes photographs made by Ellison in 1940s New York are a selection of works by Gordon Parks made at the same time, and continues at the The Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, New York, until 7 February 2025.