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Portfolio/SeriesA Man Becomes Invisible, LIFE Magazine, August 25, 1952
Artist
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
(United States, 1912 - 2006)
Date1952, printed 2017
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsIMAGE: 9 x 11 1/2 in. (228.6 x 292.1 mm)
SHEET: 11 x 14 in. (279.4 x 355.6 mm)
FRAME: 17 x 21 in. (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
SHEET: 11 x 14 in. (279.4 x 355.6 mm)
FRAME: 17 x 21 in. (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
Object TypePhotographs
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation
Object number2017.438
On View
Not on viewLIFE photographer Gordon Parks, a friend of Author [Ralph] Ellison, was so moved by this story [the novel Invisible Man by Ellison] that he translated it into pictures. With Ellison’s help he re-created from the novel the scenes on these pages to show the loneliness, the horror and the disillusionment of a man who has lost faith in himself and his world.
– author unknown, LIFE, August 25, 1952
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1985
