Review: Gordon Parks, Alison Jacques Gallery
Laura Cumming, The Observer
July 2020
Iced milk, banana splits, pecan ice-cream and butterscotch: they’re all for sale on a sweltering sidewalk in Mobile, Alabama. It is the long summer of 1956. Two women in fabulous sunray skirts and matching earrings stand patiently on the right as a handsome young father in shades helps his daughter to the drinking fountain on the left. Three more children are waiting thirstily for water. […]