Iconic Encounter: Michael Lobel on Gordon Parks and Ella Watson
Michael Lobel, Artforum
October 2018

Even now, decades later, it retains the power to mesmerize. Spare and emblematic, the image has the concision of a single-verse hymn: a woman, standing at center, mop and broom on either side of her; a few pieces of office equipment appearing at left and right; an American flag hanging in the background. […]