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Gordon Parks.

Sub-TitleThe Flávio story.

Call NumberBMA TR140.P35 G65 2018

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

Subject Flávio Pinheiro

Author Instituto Moreira Salles

Author Paul Roth (born 1966)

Author Amanda Maddox

Author Sérgio Burgi

Author Beatriz Jaguaribe

Author Peter W. Kunhardt

Author Timothy Potts

Author Maria Alice Rezende de Carvalho

Author Amanda Smith

Author Natalie Spagnol

Author Ryerson Image Centre (Toronto, Ontario)

Author J. Paul Getty Museum

Publisher Gordon Parks Foundation (United States, established 2006)

PublishedPleasantville, NY

Year2018

More Information

Description

301 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.

Location

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

Objects

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

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

Isabel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

Flavio da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

Title unknown, (Flavio's mother, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1961)

Isabel da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

Frisco Railway Station

Flavio Feeds Zacarias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

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.

Nair da Silva and Zacarias

Untitled, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961

Flavio amuses smaller brothers and sisters

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.

Dead neighbor of Da Silvas lies with vigil candles awaiting burial

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?