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Portfolio/SeriesFort Scott Revisited, LIFE Magazine, 1950 (unpublished)
Artist
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
(United States, 1912 - 2006)
Date1950, printed 2017
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsIMAGE: 16 7/8 x 14 in. (428.6 x 355.6 mm)
SHEET: 20 x 16 in. (508 x 406.4 mm)
FRAME: 27 x 21 in. (68.6 x 53.3 cm)
SHEET: 20 x 16 in. (508 x 406.4 mm)
FRAME: 27 x 21 in. (68.6 x 53.3 cm)
Object TypePhotographs
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and the Gordon Parks Foundation
Object number2017.373
On View
Not on viewParks included twelve photographs about Kansas in his gift of 128, most from the 1950 LIFE assignment that motivated him to return to Kansas after twenty years away. The resulting photo-essay, Fort Scott Revisited (Parks’s title), documented the lives of African Americans living in segregated Fort Scott and what happened to Parks’s classmates after graduating from their all-Black junior high school. Although the photo-essay went unpublished in the magazine, Parks included photographs taken in Fort Scott in his 1975 book Moments Without Proper Names and in a film of the same name that aired on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) in 1987. The afterlife of Fort Scott Revisited demonstrates the significance it held for Parks.
Parks chose this photograph when the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art invited Parks to participate in its Gift Print program in 1993. The program celebrates a Kansas artist by offering the public an opportunity to collect a fine art print commissioned by the museum from that artist.
Parks chose this photograph when the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art invited Parks to participate in its Gift Print program in 1993. The program celebrates a Kansas artist by offering the public an opportunity to collect a fine art print commissioned by the museum from that artist.
Exhibitions
Bibliography
Half past autumn.
Voices in the mirror.
Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come
Moments without proper names.
Back to Fort Scott.
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1950, printed 2017
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1967, printed 2017
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1951, printed 2017
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