Gordon Parks meets Muhammad Ali at Kansas City museumKANSAS CITY, Mo. – The charismatic and controversial American heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, as photographed by Gordon Parks, is the subject of an exhibition that opens at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on Feb. 14, 2020, and runs through July 5. Gordon Parks x Muhammad Ali: The Image of a Champion, 1966/1970 was organized by the Nelson-Atkins […]
Alabama museum hopes to display Gordon Parks photosMOBILE, Ala. (AP) – When an Atlanta museum makes international headlines with an exhibition of photos from Mobile’s past, it raises an obvious question. The History Museum of Mobile has a forceful answer. When will the photos that Gordon Parks shot in 1956 for a Life magazine story on segregation come full circle back to […]
Kan. museum acquires 125 Gordon Parks photographsWICHITA, Kan. (AP) – Wichita State University just acquired another 125 classic photographs by Gordon Parks, an American icon. The move not only makes WSU the destination place for anyone studying Parks, said WSU’s Ted Ayres, but goes further to right a wrong that WSU and Wichita long ago inflicted on the man. Donors including […]
NY Museum plans exhibit of Gordon Parks photographsALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – The State Museum is marking the 100th birthday of photographer Gordon Parks with an exhibit of his works. The show opening on Jan. 26 showcases six decades of Parks’ photographs. It will include his most famous photo, American Gothic, Washington, D.C., which shows a black cleaning woman standing in front of […]