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Half past autumn.

Sub-TitleA retrospective.

Call NumberBMA TR140.P35 P35 1997

Subject Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (United States, 1912 - 2006)

Author Philip Brookman

Author Corcoran Gallery of Art, George Washington University

Publisher Bulfinch Press Book

Publisher Corcoran Gallery of Art, George Washington University

PublishedBoston

Year1997

Volume1

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Description

360 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.

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Location

Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Mary Lee Graham Library, main stacks

Objects

Dirt is a constant plague — to the spirit, to Ellen’s feet

Otto von Habsburg's Wedding, France 1951

Isabel da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

Mrs. Mullens, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1950

Frisco Railway Station

Saint Benedict’s Abbey, Atchison, Kansas

Mother and Child, Blind River, Ontario, 1955

Still Life, New York

The Cry That Will Be Heard, from the series What I Want, What I Am, What You Force Me to Be Is What You Are

Chimney Pots, Paris

Black Muslims Rally

Uncle James Parks

Pastor Ledbetter, from the series Metropolitan Baptist Church

Newsman Being Frisked at Muslim Rally in Chicago, Illinois, 1963

Stove occupies the center of auditorium in Shady Grove School

Muhammad Ali at Lord’s Cricket Ground, St. John’s Wood, London, England

Paris Race Track, 1965

Still Life, Paris, 1965

Dirt is a constant plague — to the spirit, to Ellen’s feet

At the poverty board: Bessie and Kenneth, Little Richard, Norman, Jr. and Ellen

Harlem Rally, New York

Isabel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

The da Silva Shack in the Favela of Catacumba, Rio de Janeiro

Mourner at Marshal Pétain's Funeral, Île d'Yeu, France, 1951

Soapbox Orator, Harlem, New York, 1952

Patrician: Comtesse Alain de la Falaise, noted in Parisian society for her slim figure, patronizes Schiaparelli. Here she wears exotic cotton evening dress reminiscent of styles in the late 20s (Maxime de la Falaise)

Flavio Feeds Zacarias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

Nair da Silva and Zacarias

Show-stoppers of collections were fabulous ball dresses like these Fath designs

Elderly Woman, Paris

The Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1958

Harlem Rooftops

Political Meeting, Paris

In mortuary Red and Herbie Levy study wounds on face of Maurice Gaines, a buddy of theirs who was found dying one night on a Harlem sidewalk.

Tenement Dwellers, Chicago, Illinois, 1950

In the shadowy slum into which she was born in Rio de Janeiro, 3-year-old Isabel da Silva cries to herself after vainly seeking comfort from her exhausted father, José.

Flavio amuses smaller brothers and sisters

Bessie and Little Richard the Morning After She Scalded Her Husband

Trapped in abandoned building by a rival gang on street, Red Jackson ponders his next move.

Babe Ruth's Funeral, New York, 1948

Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan, 1950

Table in Snow (backyard of Parks home, White Plains, New York)

Newt’s mother, Sarah Winger, was the all-pervasive influence in his life. In a long evening walk… she tried to impart to him her deep sense of religion

Muhammad Ali in training, Miami, Florida

Flavio da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

Joseph Welch, 1954

Former King, Carol of Romania (with wife Magda Lupescu, Princess Elena of Romania)

Blue Girl, Peru

In their home outside Algiers, Parks photographed Cleaver and his wife Kathleen beneath a picture of Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party, who is now in prison for manslaughter, from the series Black Panthers: The Hard Edge of Confrontation

Willie Causey and Family

Spanish Fashion 1950

The family’s day begins at dawn. In the biggest room of the shack — it is 6 x 10 feet — 12-year-old Flávio gets himself up.

Sick and exhausted from week’s care of the family, Flávio rests on Sunday when his mother is free to look after brothers and sisters. “I am not afraid of death,” he explained earnestly to Parks. “But what will they do after?

Top Woman (Ethel Sharrieff, daughter of Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam)