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.
Portfolio/SeriesFreedom’s Fearful Foe: Poverty, Life Magazine, June 16, 1961
Artist
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
(United States, 1912 - 2006)
Date1961, printed 2017
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsIMAGE: 15 1/8 x 21 in. (384.2 x 533.4 mm)
SHEET: 20 x 24 in. (508 x 609.6 mm)
FRAME: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
SHEET: 20 x 24 in. (508 x 609.6 mm)
FRAME: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Object TypePhotographs
Credit LineKansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.468. Image courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Object number2017.468
On View
Not on viewExhibitions
Bibliography
Marla J. (Sherrill) Rice
1998
CM106.2015
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
2017.413
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1984
2017.508