Gordon Parks’ photographs of Black Americans in the 1950s are essential viewing in London
Hannah Silver, Wallpaper*
March 2026
When Gordon Parks picked up a camera in 1937, aged 25, Black Americans around him were processing the repercussions of the Civil War. In 1865, four million enslaved people were emancipated; while they attempted to build their lives over the ensuing decades, they were subjected to humiliating racial segregation laws, mob violence and lynching, and denied a vote. […]