EAN: 9783969992517

AMERICAN GOTHIC - GORDON PARKS LEINEN

American Gothic  Gordon Parks' 1942 portrait of government worker Ella Watson  is among the
most celebrated photographs of the twentieth century. Created as part of an extensive
collaboration between the photographer and his subject  it is at once a record of one woman's
position within the racial  professional and economic hierarchies that stratified the nation's
capital and Parks' visual reckoning with the realities of living in racially segregated
Washington  D.C. Through his work with Watson-a custodian in the government building where he
worked-Parks composed an intimate portrait of Black life by focusing on everyday activities 
from work routines to family meals and church services. The resulting photographs trace a
remarkably intimate portrait of Watson as a multidimensional figure  cherished by her community
and vitally important within the civic sphere. American Gothic. Gordon Parks and Ella Watson
provides a comprehensive overview of this pivotal series of photographs  including more than 50
images  some never published before  and additional archival material.  Co-published with The
Gordon Parks Foundation and the Minneapolis Institute of Art

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