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Beach Museum of Art
Kansas State University
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Home for Da Silva family is hillside jumble of squatters…
Home for Da Silva family is hillside jumble of squatters’ huts beneath Rio’s famous statue of Christ.
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Home for Da Silva family is hillside jumble of squatters…
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Home for Da Silva family is hillside jumble of squatters’ huts beneath Rio’s famous statue of Christ., 1961, printed 2017, gelatin silver print, 21 x 15 7/8 in., Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.404 Image courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation
Image courtesy of and copyright by Gordon Parks Foundation

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

Portfolio/SeriesFreedom’s Fearful Foe: Poverty, LIFE Magazine, June 16, 1961
Artist (United States, 1912 - 2006)
Date1961, printed 2017
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsIMAGE: 21 x 15 7/8 in. (533.4 x 403.2 mm)
SHEET: 24 x 20 in. (609.6 x 508 mm)
FRAME: 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Object TypePhotographs
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation
Object number2017.404
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The da Silva Shack in the Favela of Catacumba, Rio de Janeiro
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
Image courtesy of and copyright by Gordon Parks Foundation
Flavio da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, In the shadowy slum into which she was born in Rio de Ja…
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.
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
Image courtesy of and copyright by Gordon Parks Foundation
Isabel da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
Stoney Hillside
Stoney Hillside
Herschel C. Logan
ca. 1928
Sketch Cuba, Huts
Sketch Cuba, Huts
John Steuart Curry
1946
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Flavio's Neighbor's Corpse, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961…
Dead neighbor of Da Silvas lies with vigil candles awaiting burial
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
Image courtesy of and copyright by Gordon Parks Foundation
Jose da Silva
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
Image courtesy of and copyright by Gordon Parks Foundation
Nair da Silva and Zacarias
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
Christ and the Money Changers
Christ and the Money Changers
Caroline Thorington
1970
The Black Christ of Mexico
The Black Christ of Mexico
Ruth Starr Rose
ca. 1942
Wheat Field
Wheat Field
Charles Leroy Marshall Sr.
1983