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Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come

Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come

Call NumberDIGIMG TR140.P35 P35 2022

Author Aileen June Wang

Author Mark Crosby

Author Linda Duke

Author Cameron Leader-Picone

Author Sarah Price (United States, born 1978)

Author Karin Westman

Publisher New Prairie Press

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

PublishedManhattan, KS

Year2022

CopyrightCreative Commons

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Description

237 pages : illustrations.

Location

DIGIMG1, Digital Library Resources

Link

Available online:

https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/45/

Objects

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

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

Monreale Cathedral, Palermo, Sicily

Frisco Railway Station

It is sometimes as cold in Norman Jr.’s bedroom as it is outside

Saint Benedict’s Abbey, Atchison, Kansas

Still Life, New York

Chimney Pots, Paris

Uncle James Parks

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

Saint Benedict’s Abbey, Atchison, Kansas

Black Muslims Rally

Pastor Ledbetter, from the series Metropolitan Baptist Church

Stove occupies the center of auditorium in Shady Grove School

Window in Paris

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

Beggar Woman and Child, Estoril, Portugal

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

Men standing in street, Paris

Harlem Rally, New York

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

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)

Giorgio de Chirico, co-founder of Metaphysical painting, Rome

Sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Paris

Malcolm X and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Harlem, New York

Muhammad Ali's fists after match with Henry Cooper, London, England

In the evening their mother shops for the cheapest food she can find

Mysticism that the hero finds in Harlem is represented by objects — both religious and superstitious — seen in a store window

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

Elderly Woman, Paris

Durland Shadows (Kansas State University campus)

A Man's Business

Manhattan Commission

Harlem Rooftops

Here, without rush we keep our lives moving (Beecher Bible & Rifle Church)

Political Meeting, Paris

Antiquary 1 (Goodnow House)

Manhattan Mercury special insert celebrating the paper’s centennial

Muhammad Ali with child

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.

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.

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

Home for Da Silva family is hillside jumble of squatters’ huts beneath Rio’s famous statue of Christ.

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

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

Blue Girl, Peru

Alexander Calder

Parish Priest (Father Placidus walks in a field of winter wheat with parishioner, Louis Huss)

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

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini in Stromboli, Italy

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.

Willie Causey and Family

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?

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Gordon Parks: "Homeward to the Prairie I Come"