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GORDON PARKS (1912 - 2006) Harlem, New York City.
Silver print, 1948. 197x197 mm; 7 3/4x7 3/4 inches, full margins. From Profile of Poverty, sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity, with the label on the verso.
Provenance: private collection.
In 1948, Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison collaborated on a photojournalism project, the subject of which was the LaFargue Psychiatric Clinic in Harlem. The two men roamed Harlem, making images for what Ellison believed would make for "something new in photojournalism." Park's photographs were later published in Life magazine. In 1965, the Smithsonian Museum held an exhibition, Profile of Poverty, featuring the works of several documentary photographs as a way of eliciting emotion towards the national war on poverty. Parks's depiction of Harlem was one of the photographs selected for this government sponsored show.
