Gordon Parks Upended Stereotypes of Policing in America
Tom Seymour, The Art Newspaper
June 2020
During the protests that erupted across the US in May after the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, many activists on social media shared images taken by the photographer Gordon Parks. In comparison with other documentary photographers of his generation, Parks remained a fairly unheralded name in the annals of photography, beyond the moniker of being considered the first black photographer to “break the colour line” in the US. […]