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In the Lens of Gordon Parks
Join Maggie Brown-Peoples, SLAM’s 2024–2026 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow, as she showcases the works of Gordon Parks, a twentieth-century photographer, filmmaker, author, and composer who recorded American life and culture from the early 1940s to the 2000s.
Gordon Parks, American, 1912–2006; Eastern State Exposition, Parents Watching their Children on a Ferris Wheel, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1947; gelatin silver print; 7 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Shop Fund 196:1989; © Parks Foundation
Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
