The Images of Poverty that Sparked a Firestorm in the 1960s
Jordan Riefe, Observer
July 2019
When Life magazine sent photographer Gordon Parks to Brazil to shoot a photo essay on poverty in 1961, he chose as his subject 12-year-old Flávio da Silva who, despite crippling asthma and malnourishment, was caretaker to his seven younger brothers and sisters while his parents worked all day in Rio de Janeiro’s blighted Catacumba favela. […]