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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?
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: 21 x 13 3/4 in. (533.4 x 349.2 mm)
SHEET: 24 x 20 in. (609.6 x 508 mm)
FRAME: 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
SHEET: 24 x 20 in. (609.6 x 508 mm)
FRAME: 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Object TypePhotographs
Credit LineKansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Gordon Parks and The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2017.413. Image courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Object number2017.413
On View
Not on viewExhibitions
Bibliography
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2013
2013.208
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
2017.406
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
2017.456
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
2017.451
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1961, printed 2017
2017.400
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
1967, printed 2017
2017.412
Honore Daumier
between 1848 and 1851
2019.180